{"product_id":"the-infrastructures-of-security-technologies-of-risk-management-in-johannesburg-9780472075478","title":"The Infrastructures of Security: Technologies of Risk Management in Johannesburg","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Martin Murray\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Africa - South - Republic of South Africa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMuch of the South African government's response to crime--especially in Johannesburg--has been to rely increasingly on technology. This includes the widespread use of video cameras, Artificial Intelligence, machine-learning, and automated systems, effectively replacing human watchers with machine watchers. The aggregate effect of such steps is to determine who is, and isn't, allowed to be in public spaces--essentially another way to continue segregation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eThe Infrastructures of Security\u003c\/i\u003e, author Martin J. Murray concentrates on not only the turn toward technological solutions to managing the risk of crime through digital (and software-based) surveillance and automated information systems, but also the introduction of somewhat bizarre and fly-by-night experimental \"answers\" to perceived risk and danger. Digitalized surveillance is significant for two reasons: first, it enables monitoring to take place across wide \"geographical distances with little time delay\"; and second, it allows for the active sorting, identification, and \"tracking of bodies, behaviors, and characteristics of subject populations on a continuous, real-time basis.\" These new software-based surveillance technologies represent monitoring, tracking, and information gathering without walls, towers, or guards.","brand":"University of Michigan Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47572525875351,"sku":"9780472075478","price":8883.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780472075478.webp?v=1774890218","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-infrastructures-of-security-technologies-of-risk-management-in-johannesburg-9780472075478","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}