Hiding in Plain Sight
Directed Surveillance as a Bodily Practice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12729322 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Johanne Yttri Dahl (0000-0001-8958-3115, Norwegian Police University College, corresponding author), Dag Svanæs (0000-0001-7929-2648, Norwegian University of Science and Technology) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 493-506 |
| Publication date | 2020-11-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Surveillance & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1477-7487 • E-ISSN: 1477-7487 |
| Publisher | Surveillance Studies Network (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.24908/ss.v18i4.13555 |
| OpenAlex | W3107874386 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 26 |
In this article, we empirically explore directed surveillance as bodily practice—material bodies observing other material bodies. Such low-tech police surveillance practice (Haggerty 2012) relies on a police officer’s body as a tool and medium for information gathering. The theoretical framework used in this article is inspired by Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of perception and the body (Merleau-Ponty [1945] 2005). The empirical starting point for our analysis is in-depth interviews with police officers conducting directed surveillance of mobile organised crime groups, supplemented by some observations. Findings illustrate how police officers conducting directed surveillance have internalised advanced perceptual and bodily skills that enable them to keep an optimal distance from the subject of their surveillance, suppress bodily responses, stay in character to protect their cover story, and appear relaxed when they are, in fact, vigilant. With this article we aim to contribute to increased knowledge and more precise discussions concerning the tacit and corporeal aspects of directed surveillance
Criminology · Epistemology · Knowledge management · Officer · Perception · Phenomenology (philosophy · Political science · Public relations · Sight · Sociology · Tacit knowledge · Computer Science · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Global Security and Public Health · Law · Psychology · Sex work and related issues
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Models of Working Memory
Fair Cop
Phenomenology of Perception
A Five-Stage Model of the Mental Activities Involved in Directed Skill Acquisition
Tacit Knowledge, Organizational Learning and Societal Institutions
In two minds
A Dynamic Theory of Organizational Knowledge Creation
Chameleonizing
Police Education and Training in a Global Society
Capturing knowledge of police investigations
Organization, Surveillance and the Body
‘Getting it into the body’
It all happened so slowly” – On controlling function creep in forensic DNA databases
Covert surveillance and the invisibilities of policing
Watching the watchers
Policing and the surveillance of the marginal
Theorizing surveillance in crime control
Intelligence Led Policing, Managerialism and Community Engagement
Spaningsblikket – en utforskning av politispanereslesning av omgivelsene
Undercover Policing
From a Visible Spectacle to an Invisible Presence
Normalizing covert surveillance
Visibility and the Policing of Public Space
The culture of surveillance
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |