Beyond the ‘all seeing eye’: Filipino migrant domestic workers’ contestation of care and control in Hong Kong (2019)
Journal Article
Johnson, M., Lee, M., McCahill, M., & Mesina, L. (in press). Beyond the ‘all seeing eye’: Filipino migrant domestic workers’ contestation of care and control in Hong Kong. Ethnos, https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2018.1545794

This paper draws on ethnographic data about Filipino migrant domestic workers’ perceptions of and responses to the use of surveillance cameras in the home to intervene in recent debates about surveillance, care and social control. On the one hand, ou... Read More

Theorizing surveillance in the UK crime control field (2015)
Journal Article
McCahill, M. (2015). Theorizing surveillance in the UK crime control field. Media and Communication, 3(2), 10-20. doi:10.17645/mac.v3i2.251

Drawing upon the work of Pierre Bourdieu and Loic Wacquant, this paper argues that the demise of the Keynesian Welfare State (KWS) and the rise of neo-liberal economic policies in the UK has placed new surveillance technologies at the centre of a rec... Read More

'Good' and 'bad' data subjects: media representations of the 'surveilled' in three UK newspapers (2013)
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Finn, R., & McCahill, M. (2013). 'Good' and 'bad' data subjects: media representations of the 'surveilled' in three UK newspapers. Technocrime, policing and surveillance, 28 - 47. Routledge

Crime, Surveillance and the Media (2012)
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McCahill, M. (2012). Crime, Surveillance and the Media. Routledge Handbook of Surveillance Studies, 244 - 250. Routledge

The use of surveillance cameras in a Riyadh shopping mall: Protecting profits or protecting morality? (2011)
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Alhadar, I., & McCahill, M. (2011). The use of surveillance cameras in a Riyadh shopping mall: Protecting profits or protecting morality?. Theoretical Criminology, 15(3), 315-330. doi:10.1177/1362480610396644

The rise of mass private property means that people increasingly spend their time in publicly accessible spaces controlled by private interests. Unlike public policing, which is reactive and morally toned, the policing that takes place in mass privat... Read More

Plural Policing and CCTV Surveillance (2008)
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McCahill, M. (2008). Plural Policing and CCTV Surveillance. Surveillance and Governance: Crime Control and Beyond, 199 - 219. Emerald Publishing

This chapter aims to make a contribution to recent debates on the 'governance of security' (Johnston & Shearing, 2003) by drawing upon empirical research conducted by the author and other writers on 'plural policing' and the construction of close... Read More

CCTV: Beyond penal modernism? (2006)
Journal Article
Norris, C., & McCahill, M. (2006). CCTV: Beyond penal modernism?. The British journal of criminology, 46(1), (97 - 118). ISSN 0007-0955

In recent years, a number of writers have suggested that contemporary strategies of crime control have called into question some of the central features of 'penal modernism'. The return of punitively orientated 'ostentatious' forms of punishment wher... Read More

CCTV and policing: Public area surveillance and police practices in Britain. By Benjamin J. Goold (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004, 244 pp (2005)
Journal Article
McCahill, M. (2005). CCTV and policing: Public area surveillance and police practices in Britain. By Benjamin J. Goold (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004, 244 pp. The British journal of criminology, 45(2), (234 - 236). ISSN 0007-0955

The surveillance of 'prolific' offenders : beyond 'docile bodies'
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McCahill, M., & Finn, R. The surveillance of 'prolific' offenders : beyond 'docile bodies'. Punishment and Society, 15(1), (23-42). doi:10.1177/1462474512466198. ISSN 1462-4745

This article uses ethnographic research to explore how a sample of state-defined ‘prolific’ offenders living in Northern City (a small city in the North of England) experience and respond to a surveillance regime which includes ‘appointments’, ‘track... Read More

The social impact of surveillance in three UK schools : 'angels', 'devils' and 'teen mums'
Journal Article
McCahill, M., & Finn, R. The social impact of surveillance in three UK schools : 'angels', 'devils' and 'teen mums'. Surveillance and Society, 7(3/4), (273-289). ISSN 1477-7487

Drawing upon the preliminary findings of a broader ESRC-funded project on the 'surveilled', this paper examines the social impact of 'new surveillance' technologies on the lives of school children living in a Northern City. We conducted fifteen one-h... Read More

Surveillance & Crime
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McCahill, M., & Coleman, R. Surveillance & Crime. The University of Hull

Surveillance has a long-standing relationship with crime and its identification, prevention, detection and punishment. With information on each citizen spanning up to 700 databases, and over 4 million CCTV cameras in the United Kingdom alone, this bo... Read More