The maximum surveillance society : the rise of CCTV /
Norris, Clive,
The maximum surveillance society : the rise of CCTV / Clive Norris and Gary Armstrong. - viii, 248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Images of Social Control -- Introduction: Visions of Surveillance -- A History of Photographic Surveillance and the Rise of CCTV -- The Ever Present Gaze: CCTV Surveillance in Britain -- The Selling of CCTV: Political and Media Discourses -- The Unforgiving Eye -- Introduction: Watching the Watchers--Theory and Method -- The Watchers and the Watched: The Social Structuring of Surveillance -- Working Rules and the Social Construction of Suspicion -- Communications and Consequences -- From Images to Action: From the Control Room to the Street -- Seeing the Future -- Towards the Maximum Surveillance Society.
This book asks provocative questions about the rise of the maximum surveillance society. It not only attempts to answer these questions but also provides detailed information about the reasoning behind, and effects of, social control.
1859732216 9781859732212 1859732267 9781859732267
00697741
Privacy, Right of--Great Britain
Social control--Great Britain
Closed-circuit television--Great Britain
JC596.2.G7 / N67 1999
323.44820941
The maximum surveillance society : the rise of CCTV / Clive Norris and Gary Armstrong. - viii, 248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Images of Social Control -- Introduction: Visions of Surveillance -- A History of Photographic Surveillance and the Rise of CCTV -- The Ever Present Gaze: CCTV Surveillance in Britain -- The Selling of CCTV: Political and Media Discourses -- The Unforgiving Eye -- Introduction: Watching the Watchers--Theory and Method -- The Watchers and the Watched: The Social Structuring of Surveillance -- Working Rules and the Social Construction of Suspicion -- Communications and Consequences -- From Images to Action: From the Control Room to the Street -- Seeing the Future -- Towards the Maximum Surveillance Society.
This book asks provocative questions about the rise of the maximum surveillance society. It not only attempts to answer these questions but also provides detailed information about the reasoning behind, and effects of, social control.
1859732216 9781859732212 1859732267 9781859732267
00697741
Privacy, Right of--Great Britain
Social control--Great Britain
Closed-circuit television--Great Britain
JC596.2.G7 / N67 1999
323.44820941