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Theorizing surveillance in the UK crime control field
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Abstract Drawing upon the work of Pierre Bourdieu and Loic Wacquant, this paper argues that the demise of the Keynesian Welfare State (KWS) and the rise of neo-liberal economic policies in the UK has placed new surveillance technologies at the centre of a reconfigured "crime control field" (Garland, 2001) de... mehr
Drawing upon the work of Pierre Bourdieu and Loic Wacquant, this paper argues that the demise of the Keynesian Welfare State (KWS) and the rise of neo-liberal economic policies in the UK has placed new surveillance technologies at the centre of a reconfigured "crime control field" (Garland, 2001) designed to control the problem populations created by neo-liberal economic policies (Wacquant, 2009a). The paper also suggests that field theory could be usefully deployed in future research to explore how wider global trends or social forces, such as neo-liberalism or bio-power, are refracted through the crime control field in different national jurisdictions. We conclude by showing how this approach provides a bridge between society-wide analysis and micro-sociology by exploring how the operation of new surveillance technologies is mediated by the "habitus" of surveillance agents working in the crime control field and contested by surveillance subjects.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Verbrechensbekämpfung; Kriminalität; Überwachung; Großbritannien; Widerstand; Feldtheorie
Klassifikation
Kriminalsoziologie, Rechtssoziologie, Kriminologie
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2015
Seitenangabe
S. 10-20
Zeitschriftentitel
Media and Communication, 3 (2015) 2
Heftthema
Surveillance: critical analysis and current challenges (part I)
ISSN
2183-2439
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)