Lindegaard Marie Rosenkrantz, Bernasco Wim
Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR), Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
J Res Crime Delinq. 2018 Feb;55(1):155-186. doi: 10.1177/0022427817727830. Epub 2018 Jan 16.
The widespread use of camera surveillance in public places offers criminologists the opportunity to systematically and unobtrusively observe crime, their main subject matter. The purpose of this essay is to inform the reader of current developments in research on crimes caught on camera.
We address the importance of direct observation of behavior and review criminological studies that used observational methods, with and without cameras, including the ones published in this issue. We also discuss the uses of camera recordings in other social sciences and in biology.
We formulate six key insights that emerge from the literature and make recommendations for future research.
Camera recordings of real-life crime are likely to become part of the criminological tool kit that will help us better understand the situational and interactional elements of crime. Like any source, it has limitations that are best addressed by triangulation with other sources.
摄像头监控在公共场所的广泛应用为犯罪学家提供了机会,使其能够系统且不引人注目地观察犯罪这一主要研究对象。本文旨在让读者了解摄像头捕捉到的犯罪行为研究的当前进展。
我们阐述直接观察行为的重要性,并回顾使用观察方法(包括有无摄像头)的犯罪学研究,包括本期发表的研究。我们还讨论了摄像头记录在其他社会科学和生物学中的用途。
我们总结了文献中出现的六个关键见解,并为未来研究提出建议。
现实生活中犯罪行为的摄像头记录很可能成为犯罪学工具包的一部分,有助于我们更好地理解犯罪的情境和互动因素。与任何来源一样,它也有局限性,最好通过与其他来源进行三角互证来解决。