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The maximum surveillance society : the rise of CCTV / Clive Norris and Gary Armstrong.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Berg, 1999Description: viii, 248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1859732216
  • 9781859732212
  • 1859732267
  • 9781859732267
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Maximum surveillance society.DDC classification:
  • 323.44820941 21
LOC classification:
  • JC596.2.G7 N67 1999
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 323.44820941 NOR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A227978B
Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 323.44820941 NOR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A250191B

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.

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