Surveillance and Crime Control and Prevention Flashcards
1
Q
Who was the sociologist who came up with this idea?
A
Foucault (1991)
2
Q
What was his main focus?
A
On how crime control has shifted from using threat of violence and punishment (sorveign) to control through survellience which has control over people psychologically- punishments focus on changing mind and soul.
3
Q
How it reflects how there has been a change in power within society
A
Sorveign power to disciplinary power
4
Q
How it’s everwhere
A
In schools (electronic registers and grades kept), CCTV, performance monitoring at woek
5
Q
Carceral culture
A
Prison-like
Panoptic model of surveillance spread out through society
6
Q
Evaluation
A
- Shows how can increase power of state
- People no longer bothered or aware of it
- People can avoid it
- May welcome surveillance as gives protection from harm
