Tell me how you move, and I’ll tell you what territory you express A critical look at the actuarial model of crime prevention, video surveillance, and spatial confinement via CISEM 911 in San Juan
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This article critically analyzes the CISEM 911 security system in San Juan through a qualitative approach, focusing on logics of control, video surveillance, and spatial confinement affecting vulnerable communities. It explores governmental technologies that shape discourses on risk and justify situational crime prevention policies. Based on interviews, observations, and document analysis, the article shows how the device leads to crime displacement, reinforces territorial stigma, and restricts urban mobility—particularly for young men in marginalized areas. It concludes that the actuarial paradigm operates selectively, criminalizing
poverty and reinforcing a security model rooted in exclusion.
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