This paper focuses on surveillant relations between citizens and police. We consider how online platforms enable the public to support the task of policing, as well as empowering the public to work without and beyond the police. While community-supported policing interventions are not new, more recently mobile and accessible technologies have promoted and enabled a DIY (Do-It-Yourself) culture towards policing among the public. The paper examines watch groups or those who task themselves with monitoring suspicious or actual behaviours. We consider two empirical examples; first, a community alert group mediated through social media. Second, a group of businesses that circulate, via a website, CCTV images of (alleged) wrong-doing in their premises. Drawing on David Garland’s (1996) work on responsibilisation, we situate the growth of these types of responsibilised groups within the contemporary economic and political climate of crime control in the UK. We argue that citizens are establishing new surveillant relations that are pushing policing in new and evolving directions.

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监视组，监视和自己做

本文着重于公民与警察之间的监视关系。我们考虑了在线平台如何使公众能够支持治安任务，以及如何使公众能够在没有警察的情况下工作。尽管社区支持的治安干预措施并不是什么新鲜事物，但是最近，移动和无障碍技术已经得到推广，并使DIY（自己动手）文化对公众进行治安。本文研究了观察小组或负责监视可疑或实际行为的小组。我们考虑两个经验例子；首先，通过社交媒体调解的社区警报小组。其次，一群企业通过网站在其场所传播（指称）不当行为的闭路电视图像。借鉴David Garland（1996）关于责任制的工作，我们将这类责任群体的成长置于英国犯罪控制的当代经济和政治环境中。我们认为，公民正在建立新的监视关系，从而朝着不断发展的新方向推动警务工作。