Carriere K. D.

Carriere K.D.

Churchill B.

Dawson D.

Doyle A.

Galanopoulos D.

Grabosky P.N.

Gresham P.

Jermyn D.

Jewkes Y.

Laura McGillivray

Lavrakas J.

Lee M.

Powell A.

Putnis P.

Richards L.

Robyn Lincoln

Solymosi R.

Thomson A.

Thomson T.

Tyler R.

Willis M.

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An examination of a Crime Stoppers initiative – a weekly page published in a major city-based tabloid newspaper – afforded a rare glimpse into this understudied global entity. It also offered a means of reflecting on the co-option of CCTV images; partnerships between police, media organisations, and diverse publics; and the harnessing of citizen labour in a culture of surveillance. Quantitative and qualitative analyses were conducted on the images, accompanying texts, and rhetoric of this feature page for a two-year period. From a media criminology perspective, the portrayals underscore the abrogation of the presumption of innocence, a focus on mundane property offences, with the potential to exacerbate fear of crime and to engender more punitive public attitudes. From a conceptual frame, this article proffers the notion of surveil-labour where the repurposing of CCTV data in the context of a Crime Stoppers scheme reinforces an alliance of police, media, and the public to enhance an infrastructure of informing.</p

Lincoln, RA

McGillivray, Laura

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Citizen surveil-labour: Analysing Crime Stoppers and its alliance of police, media, and publics

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