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SOC 226 Final
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Sociology
Undergraduate 2
12/05/2013

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Kids
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are monitored prior to birth. Not watching them is akin to abuse.
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Ultrasounds
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let us watch the kid prior to birth.
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Ratios of male to female being eschewed in China/India.
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125 boys for every 100 girls.
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Cultural values intersecting
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with ability to monitor fetuses. Boys are more desirable in a patriarchal society.
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1 in 5 chinese men
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will not find a wife
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Care and Constraint
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A continuum between caring and observing. At a certain point, observations become creepy.
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Scheduling
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– busier the kids, more likely that the kid is kept out of trouble.
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In summary:
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the disappearance of childhood.
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Elite:
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don’t want to be like THEIR parents. Develop potential (born with limitless potential). Trust children, want a + relationship. Want to be available, rewards.
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Less privileged style
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Acceptance and mistrust – accept who kid is, but don’t trust them & their actions. Get satisfaction – with concrete accomplishments, good at math, etc.
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Baby monitors are seen as
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essential by all, but for different reasons.
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Elites & baby monitors
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a tool for constant attentiveness. Poor people see it as a tool for safety.
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Poor families see kids
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as tougher, can survive things. Elites are much more concerned/attentive.
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Elites & cell phones
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see it as a tool for fostering relationships and communication.
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Poor people & cell phones
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see it as a tool for safety; for legit dangers. For people being followed, kids forgotten.
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Constraint technologies
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Governs where kids can go. Lets people know what is going on with their kids.
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Poor families & constraint
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see constraint as useful
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Elite families & constraint
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offensive, it questions their legitimacy.
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Elite parents & drugs
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Not worried Believe their kids will be open and truthful. Not targeted for arrest.
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Poor families
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more open to drug testing.
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Elites & smart monitoring
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could afford it, but were upset at the idea of monitoring kids. Poor families couldn’t afford it, but would use it.Both would use if need be
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Kids become who they are going to be by
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trying new things. Parents who are over controlling will impact this immensely
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There is a general anxiety of teens
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idling around
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Schools
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Always had a surveillance element.; at rock bottom, about controlling kids
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Direct supervision
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being able to watch the kids
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Testing
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make differentiations amongst kids. Key in making distinctions of schools.
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The welfare state resulted
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after world war. Gave the state a strong incentive to want to know what is going on in families. Prior, they didn’t care so long as you didn’t commit crimes.
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If you were a woman, and had a man in the house,
Definition
it was assumed that you were a couple and he would support you.
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Gilliom
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Looked at women who were on social assistance.
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Gilliom Found that
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everyone in the bureaucracy knows that women do not receive enough money to survive. BUT, is also illegal to have other jobs.
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Women must cheat the system.
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Get money in grey economy; all under the table. Babysit, prostitution, etc
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Lateral surveillance:
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Peer to peer surveillance of spouses, friends, relatives.
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Advertisements
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Major revenue generating industry boast about how they can sell and control people, Will then claim they have no impact when they get in trouble when hustling cigarettes or junk food.
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The Implicit contract
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Skipping ads is theft, contract with a network when you watch the show is that you will watch the ads. Assume you’re watching the ads AND the show.
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Consumers must be known in terms of their
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profiles and preferences
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USED TO BE that citizens were seen as a
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homogenous group that you sell to. Stable & similar needs/interests. Might need to know trends/size. But the individual details didn’t matter.
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Informational capitalism
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data provides a key market advantage
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Surveys
Definition
become less useful. People ignore them. Kids are used to fill surveys in games.
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Focus groups
Definition
Greater ability to change the product.Bon Jovi album
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Ethnographies
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Hang around with people and learn about them. Behavior/preferences.Have become the most important
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Neilson ratings
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Attempt to figure out what people were watching. Had huge issues with honesty. People try to make themselves sound good. Also people were lacking discipline.
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Direct marketing
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Contrast to mass media. Mass media is aimed at all of us.Direct marketing is aimed at specific people to sell them their product. Roots are in the magazine industry.
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Ways of securing direct marketing data
Definition
Special access to something online, Rewards, etc
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Filter bubble
Definition
the space filled with media tailored for you. Problem is we cannot control them.
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Broadcast society
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gatekeeper people controlled what was shown
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Internet society
Definition
gatekeepers are now machines, without ethics
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Fetus data collecting
Definition
interest in such things shuts us down to the possibility that the unexpected can happen. We can design human beings. Lets us make judgments that are too invasive.
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Impact of child surveillance
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puts them at risk to stalking, abuse, etc, NEED to spy on them. Tough for kids to individualize. Putting parents at a distance, breaks down trusting relationship.
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Child surveillance is a
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Pendulum swing. Based around what parents think they need to do to help kid survive. Micromanagement <-> independence
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Surveillance is based on roots of
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safety and control. Corporations milk this, making products based on surveillance. Parents & schools are beginning to question this…
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Negatives of (over)monitoring kids
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Trust and trustworthiness are super important in growing up, as an object of gaze - kid doesn’t consider themselves as an essential and contributing member of family
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Data collection/protections
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Commodifying a kid’s social world, probably a larger issue than monitoring them
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Actively monitoring
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Doesn’t mean anything gets done.
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Discriminatory tropes
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present in attempts at monitoring people. DESPITE the fact domestic abuse occurs equally
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Do not watch equally
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Boys can get away with more online. Native kids are watched way more
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Policing, Social control, surveillance
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Fulcrum of a fear of too much or too little control
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Policing
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Old invention, several hundred years old. 1700-1800’s efforts to differentiate and classify criminals. Increased emphasis on efforts to use surveillance to segregate and contain undesirables.
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John Fielding
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Bow street police (used media to shame and name, but also surveillance to classify) Super corrupt.
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The bobbies
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First attempt at a uniformed police force (paid by state, loyal to law, loyal to citizens) SHOULD BE VISIBLE.
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Reason for Police visibility is
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Distrust of undercover policing
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Early history of mugshots.
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Cameras were new, people posed like for a painting
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Lombroso & Criminal types
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Father of idea that criminals are born. Read this off of a criminal’s face. Instrumental of change in criminal justice
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Francis Galton’s work on Faces (composite photographs)
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Could identify the common visual features of criminals by overlaying negatives.
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Bertillion system
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11 detailed measurements of a criminal’s body
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Fingerprints
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Colonial context: invented by Galton in India. Way for British to differentiate all the similar looking brown people.
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Computers have made it much easier to
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search fingerprints. USED to be super hard to search fingerprints. Now it is super easy. Collects more than 50,000 a day.
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In the UK, one can be
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DNA tested simply for being a suspect of a crime. Used to only be used for pedophiles…
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The innocence projects
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Lawyers who investigate cases where people have been wrongfully accused. OPPOSITE of a cold case. Use DNA to exact ACTUAL justice. LOTS of wrongfully incarcerated.
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Dataveillance
Definition
collecting information from MANY sources
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Police capitalize on
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information collected by other agencies; health authorizes, migration officials, etc.
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deputization
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Organization are being made into partners for police
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Smurfing
Definition
depositing money into banks in amounts less than 10,000 to keep eyes off of them
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Fusion centers
Definition
places with banks of computers. Places where NSA, FBI, etc that can exchange information. Circumvent legalities of sharing information between organizations.
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Facebook
Definition
important for policing AFTER the fact.
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Police
Definition
will not share their information. They are very protective, like to be in control over their information. Concerned about losing contributions of busts
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Snitching
Definition
A way for police to learn about bad things/people. Gaining advantage from someone else’s crimes. System of barter where authorities exchange information for perks/sentence/etc
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TWO TYPES of snitching:
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Street and suite
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Suite
Definition
fancier, major. What type of legal protections will be given in exchange for information.
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Street
Definition
brow beating; threatening people over things like possession.
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Policing is
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Boring and repetitive, General order maintenance. Performative. Emotional.
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Social scripts
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normalized rules for behavior. Police still have social scripts.
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Hugely masculine characters of police.
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Must act like they own everything. Are SUPER concerned with their image. Informal rules of how they act in public.
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Dirty Harry
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Seen as ideal cop for many officers.
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Police headquarters
Definition
a place of relief. Seen as their home. Let out the emotions that need to be kept in during shift.
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2 types of vsibility
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Primary & Secondary
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Primary visiblity
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Staring; Co-presence. Watching. Gotta be there in the same space. Limited based on proximity.
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Secondary visiblity
Definition
by proxy; Mainstream media, Watching a movie about cops (ie, Die Hard) still counts. It is informing me. Surveillance cameras
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New types of visibility
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Counter surveillance. Technology has enabled us to monitor people.
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Citizen journalism
Definition
We all carry a camera in our pocket.
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Policing IS changing
Definition
Biggest concern is the images being sent out that do not accurately represent what happened. Cameras DO lie.
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Accountability
Definition
have the actions be taken responsibility for. Thought that cameras would improve this. Not the case.
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Private cameras
Definition
won’t hold up to scrutiny
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Police are now far more concerned about
Definition
their image; due to a fear of being caught doing something
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Officers have a HUGE worry about
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misrepresentations.
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Why snitching?
Definition
For the accused: For Perp: catch a break. For the police: easier investigations. For prosecutors: makes convictions more certain
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Problems with snitches
Definition
Contradicts how the justice system works. State will not encourage the commission of crimes… Yet snitches are allowed to continue what they do…
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Alice Goffman
Definition
Ethnography of poor African Americans in Philly ghetto CJS that allows tracking of young black men: hassled and harassed until they eventually get sent to prison. Police use the daily habits of people to get them in trouble. All these kids are connected – cannot go to banks, must live in a grey economy. Panoptic
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Police
Definition
Basically secretaries for the world. Must report bald eagle sighting!
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CCTV
Definition
Closed-circuit-television. Misnomer, in that most are not closed systems. Used to be seen as totally draconian. Never would be a ‘thing’
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Early CCTV systems
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Were private, Private properties not networked, often fake cameras
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England & CCTV
Definition
IRA and London’s financial district. Setting off bombs in the city.
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“Ring of steel”
Definition
tried to make the inner city of London more safe. No mailboxes or garbage cans.
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Bulger case
Definition
Young boy was stolen in a mall, fueled the desire for adding more cameras in British citizens. Tipping point in attitude for CCTV.
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After thatcher
Definition
Wanted to reduce police funding. Used cameras instead; cameras were a political response in crime.
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Norris
Definition
women are not watched, kids are bad.
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Order maintenance
Definition
cameras make sure that things are not on fire. Crime fighting potential is pretty much zero; won’t be rushing in to stop people.
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Norris and Armstrong
Definition
Markers of suspicion. Youth , skin color, etc are determinants in who gets watched.
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Norris; Does CCTV work?
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Makes people feel safer. NOT sold as a crime deterrent/solver…
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UK watches
Definition
scum looking people.
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Middle east monitors
Definition
relations between men and women.
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China’s Golden Shield
Definition
More intense monitoring of Chinese citizenry
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Surveillance workers
Definition
They are poorly paid, and the weakest link in the whole of the security apparatus. Real and felt impotence; cannot help or intervene and not respected as evidence
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Verticality
Definition
Prompts subterranean. Going underground is the result; people go into the earth.
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Warfare and bureaucracy
Definition
Rise of mass armies, 100’s of thousands of people. Need surveillance.
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Vietnam become the center point for
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thinking of warfare and surveillance bureaucracy
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Permanent warfare
Definition
since the cold war, historically there is a buildup into war. NOW, you’ve gotta constantly be ready for war. Ready and waiting.
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Revolution in military affairs (RMA)
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Trying to have sophisticated conflicts that are smaller in scale. Information superiority serves as a force multiplier
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Warfare is a
Definition
social change driver; canned food, penicillin, the internet, etc are all inventions from warfare.
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Gulf war massacre
Definition
seen as a tipping point where surveillance and weapons formed a seamless web.
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Cyber warfare
Definition
to take down the information capabilities of your enemy. USA and China.
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Insurgency
Definition
guerilla warfare which has been SUPER successful. Every single popular insurgency has been hugely successful.
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Urbanization of warfare
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impossible to have a clean conflict in a city. Insurgents move into cities as it is better for them to resist from.
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Past 30 years have incorporated
Definition
animals into surveillance.
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Nature as a concept has been changing
Definition
most complex word in nature. Based in dichotomies. Think of nature as ‘not human’, despite humans being natural.
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#1 Learning, dominating, and conserving
Definition
Most natural and pristine places are infused with monitoring technology. Rainforest has lots of sensors.
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#2 Animal agents
Definition
Not just us watching animals, animals watch each other and watch us.
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#3 Capitalizing
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Using animals as indicators for the presence of harm
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#4 Biomimicry
Definition
Learning from nature, how does nature deal with certain problems effectively?
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Most concepts of surveillance is written in terms
Definition
of human beings, but there are consequences for animals as well.
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Major historical trend
Definition
expansion of surveillance is one of the largest social trends, ever. Almost as big as urbanization.
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