Overview
The audio-visual recording of police interviews with suspects provides a good example of several important issues in the relationships between technology and policing. Beyond matters of technological development and deployment, this entry notes the social and political reception by police of new technology; the relevance of the social meanings of technology as a potential solution to policing problems; problems which are raised by over-reliance on technological solutions; and problems in the social reading of images produced by audio-visual technology.
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Technological Development and Deployment
The recording of questioning has a long history before introduction of the electronic recording which is the focus of this entry. In the thirteenth century, technologies (record-keeping procedures, synopses, archives, and indices) were developed by those responsible for the Inquisition along with bureaucracies to store and retrieve records of procedures, hearings, admissions,...
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Dixon, D. (2014). Video Technology and Police Interrogation. In: Bruinsma, G., Weisburd, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5690-2_258
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