This Edited Collection Reports The Results Of A Comparative Study Of Video Surveillance/cctv In Germany, Poland, And Sweden. It Investigates How Video Surveillance As Technologically Mediated Social Control Is Affected By National Characteristics, With A Specific Concern For Recent Political History. The Book Is Motivated By Asking What Makes Video Surveillance Tick In Three Very Different Cultural Settings, Two Of Which (poland And Sweden) Are Virtually Unexplored In The Literature On Surveillance. The Selection Of Countries Is Motivated By An Interest In Societies With Recent Experiences Of Authoritarianism, And How They Respond To The Global Trend Towards Intensified Technical Means Of Control. With Thorough Empirical Studies, The Book Constitutes An Important Contribution To Security Studies, Surveillance Studies, And Post-communist Area Studies.--publisher's Website. Machine Generated Contents Note: 1.video Surveillance In Theory And As Institutional Practice -- 2.modernisation, Balancing Interests, And Citizens' Rights: Public Video Surveillance In Poland, Germany, And Sweden / Fredrika Björklund / Ola Svenonius -- 3.video Surveillance In A Historical Perspective / Fredrika Björklund -- 4.the Protection Of Privacy In The Context Of Video Surveillance: Towards A European Model? / Ola Svenonius -- 5.video Surveillance And The Question Of Trust / Patricia Jonason -- 6.how Effective Is The Public Video Surveillance System In Warsaw? / Wojciech Szrubka -- 7.from Privacy Protection Towards Affirmative Regulation: The Politics Of Police Surveillance In Germany / Pawel Waszkiewicz -- 8.the Pressure Of The Practice: Swedish Public Surveillance In An Institutional Perspective / Eric Töpfer. Edited By Fredrika Björklund And Ola Svenonius. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.