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Author Guzik, Keith.

Title Making things stick : surveillance technologies and Mexico's war on crime / Keith Guzik
Edition [Open Access edition]
Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 254 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
Contents Surveillance studies and states of security -- Taming the tiger -- Prohesion -- Ni con goma -- Statecraft -- Grasping surveillance
Summary With Mexico's War on Crime as the backdrop, Making Things Stickoffers an innovative analysis of how surveillance technologies impact governance in the global society. More than just tools to monitor ordinary people, surveillance technologies are imagined by government officials as a way to reform the national state by focusing on the material things - cellular phones, automobiles, human bodies - that can enable crime. In describing the challenges that the Mexican government has encountered in implementing this novel approach to social control, Keith Guzik presents surveillance technologies as a sign of state weakness rather than strength and as an opportunity for civic engagement rather than retreat
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Luminos online resource, viewed May 5, 2016; title from PDF title page
Subject Crime prevention -- Mexico
Social control -- Government policy -- Mexico
Electronic surveillance -- Mexico
Security systems -- Mexico
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
Crime prevention.
Electronic surveillance.
Security systems.
Mexico.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780520959705
0520959701
Other Titles Surveillance technologies and Mexico's war on crime