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CCTV and the Rise of Mass Surveillance Society

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How, in a society of strangers, is trust possible? This is the question posed in S. Nock’s book The Costs of Privacy (1993). The twentieth century has undergone a major transformation which, though it has increased personal autonomy, has, at the same time, broken down traditional community ties and informal modes of surveillance. Increases in social and geographical mobility, urbanisation, the rapid rise of mass transportation systems and the changing family and household structure have given rise to a society of strangers. However, as individuals are freed from the constraints of familial obligations and surveillance and disembedded from traditional community networks, it becomes more difficult for them (and others) to know what kind of persons they really are; or even if they really are who they say they are! For Nock, the cost of autonomy and privacy lies not so much in the growth of surveillance but in a change in its form: from the local and intimate, based on personal knowledge and mutuality of associations, towards the impersonal, the standardised and the bureaucratic.

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  1. University of Bath, UK

    Pat Carlen (Professor of Sociology) (Professor of Sociology)

  2. University of Bristol, UK

    Rod Morgan (Professor of Criminal Justice) (Professor of Criminal Justice)

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Norris, C., Armstrong, G. (1999). CCTV and the Rise of Mass Surveillance Society. In: Carlen, P., Morgan, R. (eds) Crime Unlimited? Questions for the 21st Century. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14708-3_5

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