Sociology- Surveillance Theories since foucault

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What is the panopictian?

The panopticon is an architectural concept of a circular building with an inspection tower at its center.

Statstics to do with surveillance

2016- introducation of the investigatory powers act which grove the criminal justice system to access your internet histroy for the previous 12 months without the need for a warrant.

1:13- the ratio of cameras to people in the uk.

71% percentage of the police forces in the uk use body cameras

70 the average number of time a day someone in the uk will be caught

evaulation of surviellance

actuarial justice often based upon racial sterotyping of individuals

impacts of labelling individuals crimminal

cctv often captures crime but does not act as a deterent

assumes peoples behavouirs is subject to rational thought process

Michel foucault ‘discipline and punishment’

synoptic  surviellance - 

FOUCAULT - TYPES OF POWER

Sovereign power - the monarch had absolute power over people and their bodies. Control was asserted by inflicting visible punishment on the body. This was a brutal and emotional spectacle, such as a public execution.

Disciplinary power - became dominant from the 19th century, and involves a new system of discipline that seeks to govern the mind, soul and the body. It does this through surveillance.

surveillant assemblages-

haggerty and ericson- (2000)

argue surviellance technologies now involves involve the manipulation of virtual objects (digital data) in cyber space rather than physical bodies in physical space.

saying in this modern era we are moving towards data double

ditton et al 1999