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<p><P>This book highlights _mundane_ practices that increasingly influence our schools, homes and communities; cameras, Opagers_, electronic monitoring instruments, the digital Opaper trailO of OcashlessO transactions, random drug testing, and Ointegrity testsO. The author journeys back and forth between the justice system and the everyday life of the postmodern to illustrate how the lines between these two spheres of social life are increasingly blurred by the use of new surveillance technologies. Taken together, these surveillance rituals constitute the building blocks of a rapidly emerging society of discipline, one increasingly stripped of personal privacy, individual trust, and a viable public life that supports and maintains democratic values and practices.</p> <h3>Social Forces</h3> <p>This book is very well written....It offers a fascinating chronicle of the rage to invent new forms of surveillance, as well as pithy conceptualizations that organize the empirical materials nicely. As such, it clearly meets Staples's stated goal of providing an accesible undergraduate textbook.</p>

Author

Staples, William G.

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780742500785

Subjects

Social Science, Sociology, Science