| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 231 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Human factors in road and rail transport
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Human factors in road and rail transport.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-224) and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 A Brief History of Speed Limit Enforcement; 3 Contradictory Expert Claims about Speed Cameras; 5 Respectability, Responsibility and Resistance; 6 Experiencing Automated Enforcement; 7 Developments -- Past, Present and Future; 8 Conclusion; Glossary; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
The Fast and The Furious: Drivers, Speed Cameras and Control in a Risk Society offers an explanation for the continued debate about one road safety intervention - the speed camera - by situating that debate within contemporary literature about the 'risk society' (Beck, 1992) and more broadly understood experiences of risk faced on a daily basis by drivers. Rather than a focus on risk as something that can be objectively assessed, measured and managed separately from the social context in which it is encountered, it suggests that 'risk' is something that permeates this particular debate from ev. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Speed limits -- Great Britain.
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Speed limits. |
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Great Britain. |
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Automobile drivers -- Great Britain -- Psychology.
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Automobile drivers. |
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Psychology. |
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Photography in traffic engineering.
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Photography in traffic engineering. |
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Legal photography -- Great Britain.
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Legal photography. |
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Traffic monitoring -- Great Britain.
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Traffic monitoring. |
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Traffic safety -- Great Britain.
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Traffic safety. |
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Risk-taking (Psychology)
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Risk-taking (Psychology) |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Risk behaviors. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Wells, Helen, 1977- Fast and the furious. Farnham ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2011 9781409430896 (DLC) 2011030402 (OCoLC)743040341 |
| ISBN |
9781409430902 (electronic book) |
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1409430901 (electronic book) |
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1283318962 |
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9781283318969 |
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9781409430896 |
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1409430898 |
| Standard No. |
9786613318961 |
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