CCTV provides new insights from the latest research findings on different aspects of CCTV. This book is essential reading for businesses, local authorities, policy makers, security professionals, police and anyone who manages or works with CCTV.

The chapters are written by recognised experts and include original research into the use of effects of CCTV.

Topics covered include: the history of CCTV; lessons from implementing new CCTV schemes; the extent, sophistication and legality of CCTV in London; methods for evaluating the impact of CCTV; offenders' views on CCTV; CCTV and displacement; CCTV in a retail environment; evaluation of the scheme at Oslo central railway station; and the potential of future image communications technology in crime prevention.

Introduction; M.Gill
Police Surveillance and the Emergence of CCTV in the 1960s; C.A.Williams
Multiple Targets: The Reasons to Support Town-Centre CCTV Systems; D.Mackay
Lessons in Implementing CCTV Schemes: An Early Review; P.Smith, A.Spriggs, J.Argomaniz, J.Allen, P.Jessiman, D.Kara, R.Little, D.Swain, M.Follett & M.Gill
Estimating the Extent, Sophistication and Legality of CCTV in London; M.McCahill & C.Norris
How to Evaluate the Impact of CCTV on Crime; D.P.Farrington & K.A.Painter
What Do Offenders Think about CCTV?; M.Gill & K.Loveday
Does CCTV Displace Crime? An Evaluation of the Evidence and a Case Study from Amsterdam; S.Flight, Y.van Heerwaarden & P.van Soomeren
The Impact of Monitored CCTV in a Retail Environment: What CCTV Operators Do and Why; K.Loveday & M.Gill
An Evaluation of the CCTV Scheme at Oslo Central Railway Station; S.Winge & J.Knutsson
The Potential of Future Image Communications Technology in Crime Prevention; D.R.Bull

MARTIN GILL is Director of Perpetuity Research and Consultancy International (PRCI) Ltd and a Professor of Criminology at the University of Leicester, UK.