This module introduces students to the nature and historical development of state forms of surveillance in the contemporary world.
Topics to be covered will be selected from:-
-The meaning and definition of surveillance
-Techniques of surveillance
-The growth of state bureaucracy and the need to collect information in times of warfare and welfare. The caring/control continuum. The development of league tables in health, education, and welfare.
-Monitoring the body (health and welfare)
-Surveillance after 9/11 and the war on terror.
-Modern methods of policing, bobbies on the beat, Neighbourhood Watch, tagging and ASBOs.
-Citizenship, privacy and protecting individual rights
-Minorities and state surveillance - children, women, ethnic minorities and the underclass.
-State surveillance and political control under Thatcher and New Labour 1979-2007.
-Resisting state surveillance.
-Theoretical approaches to surveillance (Marx, Weber and Dandeker).

An essay of 2,500 words weighted at 100%.

The module will be team taught by means of a weekly one-hour lecture and a weekly one-hour seminar.

Library.
Computer rooms with access to the Internet.
The Blackboard virtual learning environmnet will be available (where relevant) to support this module. Details will be supplied in the module handbook.

Dandeker, C. (1990) Surveillance, Power and Modernity.
Clark, R.V. (ed., 1997) Situational Crime Prevention.
Gatley, D.A. and Ell, P.S. [2000] Counting Heads, York Statistics for Education
Groebner, V. (2007) Who Are You? Identification, Deception and Surveillance in Early Modern Europe.
Higgs, E. (2001) The Information State in England.
Lyon, D. (2007) Surveillance Studies: An Overview. Polity: Cambridge