Surveillance evangelism: Private technology companies and the digital futures of crimmigration control

This article contributes to criminological research on surveillance and border technologies. By analysing private security companies’ visions of future technologies as surveillance imaginaries, I argue that these companies can be conceptualized as ‘surveillance evangelists’. Rather than marketing ex...

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1. VerfasserIn: Singler, Samuel (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2025
In: Theoretical criminology
Jahr: 2025, Band: 29, Heft: 3, Seiten: 365-386
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