Manchester University Press
4 Invasions of privacy
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Abstract
This chapter focuses on the risks that are perceived to threaten the home. Not only do problems like burglary loom large in a fearful public imagination, contemporary life presents us with new problems and terrors which may invade the home, for example identity theft, predatory paedophiles, telesales and so on. The longstanding legal importance of boundaries indicates the difficulties of ensuring control over the undisturbed privacy of the home. The chapter discusses the extent to which homeownership can ensure absolute control, as against the powers of the state as well as against neighbours and varied invasions of privacy.
Abstract
This chapter focuses on the risks that are perceived to threaten the home. Not only do problems like burglary loom large in a fearful public imagination, contemporary life presents us with new problems and terrors which may invade the home, for example identity theft, predatory paedophiles, telesales and so on. The longstanding legal importance of boundaries indicates the difficulties of ensuring control over the undisturbed privacy of the home. The chapter discusses the extent to which homeownership can ensure absolute control, as against the powers of the state as well as against neighbours and varied invasions of privacy.
Chapters in this book
- Front matter i
- Contents v
- List of figures vi
- Acknowledgements ix
- History of key terms x
- 1 Introduction 1
- 2 The myths and meanings of home security 26
- 3 A shell for the body and mind 45
- 4 Invasions of privacy 66
- 5 Fear, crime and the home 86
- 6 Technologies of the defended home 107
- 7 Withdraw, defend or destroy 132
- 8 The fortress archipelago 152
- 9 Complexes of the domestic fortress 175
- References 194
- Index 220
Chapters in this book
- Front matter i
- Contents v
- List of figures vi
- Acknowledgements ix
- History of key terms x
- 1 Introduction 1
- 2 The myths and meanings of home security 26
- 3 A shell for the body and mind 45
- 4 Invasions of privacy 66
- 5 Fear, crime and the home 86
- 6 Technologies of the defended home 107
- 7 Withdraw, defend or destroy 132
- 8 The fortress archipelago 152
- 9 Complexes of the domestic fortress 175
- References 194
- Index 220
