Surveillance

• Summary - we engage in self - surveillance and we are under electronic surveillance
• Strength - Foucault's work has stimulated research into surveillance and disciplinary power
• Strength - Researchers have identified other forms of surveillance like actuarial justice
• Weakness - Foucault exaggerates the extent of control. Goffman shows how some inmates resist control
• Weakness - CCTV does not deter control, surveillance may not change behaviour