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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... view more
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.... view less
Keywords
crime fighting; criminality; monitoring; Great Britain; resistance; field theory
Classification
Criminal Sociology, Sociology of Law
Document language
English
Publication Year
2015
Page/Pages
p. 10-20
Journal
Media and Communication, 3 (2015) 2
Issue topic
Surveillance: critical analysis and current challenges (part I)
ISSN
2183-2439
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution