surveillance

• surveillance is monitoring the public behaviour to prevent or investigate crime eg. cctv, track peoples online activity or movement
• fourcault PM argues surveillance is the most effective crime prevention and control as it is a disciplinary power to control peoples mind and make them self discipline themself.
• fourcault PM - less likely to commit crime if you know your being watched
• early prisions designed as 'panopticon' prisioners could be easily observed but could not see guards so sense of having to behave all the time - developed to surveillance of cctv in institutions

  electrical panopticon leads to self surveillance and self control
• government has power to see anything you do on the internet by investigatory powers act all internet providers record everyones search history for the past year so keep the public safe from dangerous criminals
• surveillance is a normal part of life now so many arent worried and there is 'liquid surveillance' built in our phones and we dont think of how we are monitored
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  even in highly controlled environments like prisions people still commit crime
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  CCTV cameras can lead to displacement - people commit crime somewhere else
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  feminists argue CCTV is an extension of male gaze and doesnt make women any safer
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  invasion of privacy
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  right realists would favour this