Policy Mutations, Compliance Myths, and Redeployable Special Event Public Camera Surveillance in Canada

This article examines redeployable special event public camera surveillance in the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. We show how a policy discourse of situational awareness simultaneously adheres to and subverts principles articulated in the provincial privacy commissioner's privacy...

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Published in:Sociology (Oxford) 2014-02, Vol.48 (1), p.150-166
Main Authors: Hier, Sean P, Walby, Kevin
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
British Columbia
Cameras
Canada
Closed circuit television
Consciousness
Control rooms
Criminal sociology. Police. Delinquency. Deviance. Suicide
Discourse
Emergency management
Funding
Implementation
Interviews
Knowledge
Mobility
Mutation
Myth
Myths
Observational research
Policy Implementation
Policy Making
Policy sciences
Privacy
Public policy
Public safety
Security
Situational awareness
Sociology
Sociology of law and criminology
Special events
Studies
Surveillance
Surveillance of citizens
Tacit knowledge
United States environmental policy
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Summary:This article examines redeployable special event public camera surveillance in the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. We show how a policy discourse of situational awareness simultaneously adheres to and subverts principles articulated in the provincial privacy commissioner's privacy protection policy framework on public surveillance. Drawing from interview and observational data, we analyse how understandings of situational awareness inform policy design and how policymaking and implementation processes diverge as local policymakers tailor an imported policy framework to address tacit knowledge about public safety. Our findings contribute to the sociology of policymaking by developing empirical insights into policy meanings, mobilities, mutations, and myths.
ISSN:0038-0385
1469-8684
DOI:10.1177/0038038513477755