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Title Surveillance and governance : crime control and beyond / edited by Mathieu Deflem
Published Bingley, UK : Emerald/JAI, ©2008
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 378 pages)
Series Sociology of crime, law, and deviance, 1521-6136 ; v. 10
Sociology of crime, law, and deviance ; v. 10.
Contents Part I: Boundaries and spaces -- Community, surveillance and border control : the case of the minteman project / James Walsh -- The politics of sight/site : locating cameras in Vancouver's public spaces / Kevin D. Haggerty, Laura Huey, Richard V. Ericson -- The conquest of space : New York City's new frontier of social control / Kristen Christiansen -- The check and the guardianship : a comparison of surveillance at an airport and a housing-estate area in the Paris outskirts / Fabien Jobard, Dominique Linhardt -- Lex vigilatoria : global control without a state? / Thomas Mathiesen -- Part II: Technologies and strategies -- Technologies of the body, technologies of the self : house arrest as neo-liberal governance / William G. Staples, Stephanie K. Decker -- Academia, surveillance, and the FBI : a short history / Scott G. White -- "What if she's from the FBI?" the effects of covert forms of social control social movements / David Cunningham, John Noakes -- Plural policing and CCTV surveillance / Michael McCahill -- Part III: Objectives and counter-objectives -- The new lateral surveillance and a culture of suspicion / Janet Chan -- Citizenship, hyper-surveillance, and double-consciousness : racial profiling as panoptic governance / Karen S. Glover -- Hacking the panoptician : distributed online surveillance and resistance / Benoît Dupont -- Surveillance and sovereignty / Kevin Stenson -- Part IV: Beyond crime control -- Surveillance and educational testing : no child left behind and the remaking of American schools / John Gilliom -- Governing beyond command and control : a responsive and nodal approach to child protection / Nathan Harris, Jennifer Wood -- From thought control to traffic control : CCTV politics of expansion and resistance in post-olympics Greece / Minas Samatas
Summary This volume presents recent insights in the sociological study of surveillance and governance in the context of criminal justice and other control strategies. The chapters provide a varied set of theoretical perspectives and substantive research domains on the qualities and quantities of some of the most recent transformations of social control as well as their historical precursors in diverse social settings. The contributors to this volume testify to the increasing relevance of surveillance and governance across the globe as well as the cross-national study thereof. Among the central issues discussed is the relationship between state and non-state mechanisms of surveillance. Moreover, many of the new technologies that a decade ago led to analytical reflections of the highest order today have become banal in their everyday application and routine diffusion. What can sociologists intelligently say about these developments in both empirical and theoretical respects? Creatively exploring many facets of the broader constellation of contemporary surveillance and governance strategies with respect to both crime control and related developments, the contributors of this volume offer provocative and thoughtful reflections that will stimulate our theoretical thinking about relevant issues. This is a contemporary study of surveillance and governance. It includes contributions from an international group of leading scholars
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Electronic surveillance -- Social aspects
Electronics in crime prevention.
Crime prevention -- Optical equipment.
Closed-circuit television.
Causes & prevention of crime.
Social Science -- Criminology.
Closed-circuit television
Crime prevention -- Optical equipment
Electronic surveillance -- Social aspects
Electronics in crime prevention
Kriminalität
Bekämpfung
Elektronische Überwachung
Form Electronic book
Author Deflem, Mathieu
ISBN 9781849505581
1849505586
1282735918
9781282735910
9786612735912
6612735910