The Surveillance Web

The rise of CCTV and surveillance technologies has been one of the key developments in contemporary society, but its impact has often been analysed in a fragmented manner. This book addresses this issue by providing a detailed, micro-sociological account of the construction of a CCTV network in one English city. It differs from previous studies (which have concentrated on open street CCTV systems) in documenting and analysing the use of visual surveillance systems in a number of different locations and institutional settings, including the industrial workplace, shopping malls, high-rise housin.

Cover; The Surveillance Web: The rise of visual surveillance in an English city; Copyright; Contents; List of figures and tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part 1 Theory and Method; Chapter 1 Towards a contemporary theory of surveillance; Time-space distanciation and the panopticon; Post-Fordism and surveillance; The risk society; From theory to method; Part 2 The Rise of Visual Surveillance in Northern City; Chapter 2 The story of Northern City; The CCTV Challenge Competition; The local media and CCTV; CCTV in the Daily Echo; Summary; Chapter 3 The surveillance web.

The human mediation of technology: limits to system integrationSummary; Part 3 Three Case Studies of Visual Surveillance Systems; Chapter 4 The panopticon mall; The social construction of suspicion in two shopping malls; Familiar names and familiar faces: personalised suspicion in a shopping mall; Appropriate use of space in a shopping mall; Managerial concerns; Discussion; Chapter 5 Watching the workers; Managing the threat to profitability: monitoring the external threat; Managing the threat to profitability: monitoring the internal threat; Improving worker performance; Discussion.

Chapter 6 Watching the ten…