CCTV in the UK: A Failure of Theory or A Failure of Practice?
Martin Gill
perpetuitygroup
Although CCTV was heralded as something of a silver bullet in the fight
against crime (and by two Governments) scholarly research has questioned the
extent to which it 'works'. Martin Gill led the Home Office national
evaluation on CCTV and has subsequently conducted more research with CCTV
schemes across the country. In this talk he will outline the findings from
the national evalaution and assess the views of the public, scheme workers
and offenders' perspectives (including showing film clips of offenders
talking at crime scenes) to show just why CCTV has not worked out as many
considered. Martin will relate these findings to the current development of
a national strategy.
