TY  - CHAP
AB  - Abstract Police technology fundamentally shapes the police role, and the adoption of technology is even linked to the success of police reforms. Police adoption of emerging technological tools changes the way police interact with citizens. The change in police citizen interactions can then have serious implications for the social control that police have over citizens, the civil liberties citizens enjoy, police accountability, and the legitimacy that the police hold in contemporary American society.While technology impacts these critical issues in policing, not all technology adopted by the police is likely to influence their relationship with the public. As such, this chapter closely examines the ways that several emerging technologies adopted by the police (i.e., body-worn cameras (BWC), aerial surveillance, visual surveillance, social media, mapping and crime prediction, and less lethal force technology) impact issues related to social control, accountability, and legitimacy. The current literature seems to indicate that some innovations such as BWCs enhance police accountability and legitimacy, and also expand social control. Other technologies such as aerial surveillance and conducted energy devices increase social control, and display a complicated or unclear influence over police legitimacy.
VL  - 31
SN  - 978-1-78756-049-9, 978-1-78756-048-2/2053-7697
DO  - 10.1108/S2053-769720190000031014
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S2053-769720190000031014
AU  - Rossler Michael T.
ED  - Cara E. Rabe-Hemp
ED  - Nancy S. Lind
PY  - 2019
Y1  - 2019/01/01
TI  - The Impact of Police Technology Adoption on Social Control, Police Accountability, and Police Legitimacy
T2  - Political Authority, Social Control and Public Policy
T3  - Public Policy and Governance
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 209
EP  - 224
Y2  - 2024/04/16
ER  -