Surveillance Flashcards
(10 cards)
What is surveillance?
Used as a sort of preemptive tool in order to try to predict where and when patterns of crime and likely to occur and to address them as quickly as possible.
What does Foucault say?
The ponopticon
- How surveillance is a tool to enforce order.
- The panoptic approach is based on the idea that surveillance involves the manipulation of physical bodies in confined spaces in a prison
- Discipline and punish: The Birth of the Prison
What is the Panopticon?
prison structure of guards in a circle in the middle with the prisoners cell going around 360 degrees around the outside.
There is a light that shines towards the prisoners and so the prisoners can’t see who is in the tower so don’t know if they are being watched or not.
What is sovereign power?
- Typical of the period before 19th century
- The monarch had absolute control over the people
- Control was asserted by inflicting disfiguring, visible punishements of the body
- Punishments were brutal, emotional spectacle, such as public execution.
What is disciplinary power?
- Became dominant from the 19th century
- A new system of discipline seeks to govern not just the body but the mind or soul and it does it through surveillance.
What did Haggerty and Ericson say?
Argue surveillance technologies now involve the manipulation of virtual objects in cybespace rather than physical bodies in physical space
What does Mathiesan say?
Argues that Foucalt’s account of surveillance only tells half the story when applied to todays society.
What does Lyon say?
Social sorting and categorical suspension
- argues we sort people based on the level of risk they impose.
- This leads to some being placed under ‘categorical suspicion’ I.e. being suspected of wrongdoing based on the group they belong to.
What does Gil and Loveday say?
Found robbers are not put off by CCTV
What does Koskela say?
That CCTV is an extension of the male gaze and used to monitor women.
