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Surveillance, Crime and Social Control
Brings together articles that have informed debate and scholarship on the relationship between surveillance and crime and social control. This volume covers issues including theorizing surveillance, CCTV, police informers, technology and crime control and the future of surveillance.
Author(s) | Edited by Dean Wilson, Clive Norris (University of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK). |
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Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Format | Hardback |
Pages | 610 |
Published in | United Kingdom |
Published | 9 Nov 2006 |
Availability | Available |
Brings together articles that have informed debate and scholarship on the relationship between surveillance and crime and social control. This volume covers issues including theorizing surveillance, CCTV, police informers, technology and crime control and the future of surveillance.
Contents: Series preface; Introduction. Part I Theory: I'll be watching you: reflections on the new surveillance, Gary T. Marx; Bentham's Panopticon: from moral architecture to electronic surveillance, David Lyon; Postscript on the societies of control. G
Clive Norris is Professor of Sociology at the University of Sheffield and Deputy Director of the Sheffield Centre for Criminological Research. He is one of the founding editors of the free on-line journal 'Surveillance and Society' and is currently resea