NCJ Number
208626
Date Published
2004
Length
287 pages
Annotation
This book focuses on the political processes in Liverpool, in the United Kingdom that are shaping the uses of surveillance over and above the procedural capability of cameras.
Abstract
The study of social control is contested among criminologists and social scientists noting differences in interpretations of the relations between social control, power, the state, and social order. In examining the development of a local camera network, this book seeks to contribute to the debates in exploring the nature and directions of social control in the early part of the 20th century. CCTV is explored as part of a more broadly conceived set of social ordering practices. In chapter 2 of the book, an overview of the theoretical issues surrounding the concept of social control, referencing post-Foucauldian contributions is presented. Chapter 3 challenges the assumption that the state is of declining importance when exploring social control practices in the city. Chapter 4 explores what is referred to as the neoliberalization of space, and discusses the trajectory of a neoliberal logic in helping interpret changes in urban rule and sociospatial control. Chapter 5 provides an overview of social control and governance in Liverpool between 1800 and the 1990's to find themes and the role of discourses and narratives in urban politics relating to the regulation and control of the streets in Liverpool. Chapter 6 discusses the development and trajectory of the neoliberal state in Liverpool city center. Chapter 7 places the camera network within this wider politics of space and highlights the consequences, tensions, and contradictions within the surveillance network of the neoliberal state. In conclusion, chapter 8 revisits and draws together the central theme and arguments of the book by providing a discussion of the implications arising from the arguments contained with it. Appendix and references