Ebook: The Surveillance Web: The Rise of Visual Surveillance in an English City

The Surveillance Web: The Rise of Visual Surveillance in an English City.


"One of the central themes in recent sociological debates on surveillance and social control concerns the issue of whether the advent of modern video, computer and telecommunications systems have given rise to a new surveillance, qualitatively different from that which existed before (Marx, 1988; Lyon, 1994)."