%0 Journal Article
%T Citizen surveil
%A Laura McGillivray
%A Robyn Lincoln
%J Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology
%@ 1837-9273
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0004865818786761
%X An examination of a Crime Stoppers initiative ¨C a weekly page published in a major city-based tabloid newspaper ¨C afforded a rare glimpse into this understudied global entity. It also offered a means of reflecting on the co-option of CCTV images; partnerships between police, media organisations, and diverse publics; and the harnessing of citizen labour in a culture of surveillance. Quantitative and qualitative analyses were conducted on the images, accompanying texts, and rhetoric of this feature page for a two-year period. From a media criminology perspective, the portrayals underscore the abrogation of the presumption of innocence, a focus on mundane property offences, with the potential to exacerbate fear of crime and to engender more punitive public attitudes. From a conceptual frame, this article proffers the notion of surveil-labour where the repurposing of CCTV data in the context of a Crime Stoppers scheme reinforces an alliance of police, media, and the public to enhance an infrastructure of informing
%K CCTV
%K citizen participation
%K Crime Stoppers
%K media criminology
%K police¨Cmedia partnerships
%K surveillance
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0004865818786761