“History is written by the victor … but in some cases, it's also now written by the recordings”: Body-worn cameras and the double-edged nature of police visibility
July 07th, 2025
We would like to draw attention to the English-language article titled “‘History is written by the victor … but in some cases, it's also now written by the recordings’: Body-worn cameras and the double-edged nature of police visibility,” published on June 12, 2025, in the journal Theoretical Criminology.
The article explores issues related to police visibility and transparency, with a particular focus on the potential use of body-worn cameras—a technological solution that can help document and reveal incidents, including violent ones, that occur during police operations. According to the authors, the use of this tool has an ambivalent impact on police work, based on a peculiar dialectic of empowerment and disempowerment.
The article is available at the following link.