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Surveillance - Coggle Diagram
Surveillance
Thomas Mathiesen
it is not as sinister as it seems, more democratic
it is not panoptic, it's synoptic surveillance
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Michel Foucault
Sovereign power:
pre-modern societies before surveillance, state had sovereign power
- control through fear and power, sovereign intimidates through things like public hangings
Disciplinary power:
- cameras, phones, people
- suspicion that people know what you are doing
- controlled by self discipline
- dont need things like hangings anymore
The Panopticon:
- prisons laid out with long corridors, can see all the way down
- the panopticon = a way of laying out urban centres
- stops crime as feel unwanted
Labelling theory
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you look at numbers in prisons and say they commit most crimes, but they are just those that surveillance & policing is trained on, other groups not surveyed
Surveillance
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surveillance is not just monitoring, not just cameras, also involves data e.g. medical health records
Haggerty and Ericson
Surveillant assemblages:
- some insitutions have these
- GPS, drivers license, CCTV, number plate recognition etc
- we just have phones / cameras
- they also have biometric data & DNA
- it is not democratic, they have all the data & tech
David Lyon et al
Social sorting:
- says actuarial justice causes social sorting.g. gender, age, class, religion etc
- we are placing people under categorical suspicion, causes stereotyping e.g. muslims at airports, discrimination
Feeley and Simon
Actuarial justice:
actuarialism = specific surveillance of areas / people at more risk of crime being committed
- e.g. younger pay more for insurance as more likely to crash
- don't surveillance old people, women etc
Michael McCahill
Hierarchies of surveillance:
not democratic, some have more data & tech