surveillance theory

• Surveillance 


  involves monitoring people to control crime.
• Foucault: the Panopticon

  • argues that in modern society we are increasingly controlled through self-surveillance through what he calls ‘disciplinary power’.

  Panopticon

  • prisoners cells are visible to the guards from e a central viewing point but prisoners cannot see the guards
  • prisoners dont know if they are being watched but constantly behave as if they are
• Synoptic surveillance 


  Mathiesen

  • argues that as well as surveillance from above we now have surveillance from bellow. Synpoticon - everybody watches everybody