Surveillance, Information, and Criminal Justice
Criminal Justice · 3 hrs Lecture
Offered: Fall Or Spring, Every Second Year
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CJ-3184 prerequisites
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Description
This course provides students with a critically informed understanding of surveillance in Canada. A main goal is to explore concepts and develop skills to engage with claims about surveillance and related topics such as policing. Students learn to define surveillance, information, and the relationship of surveillance to the nation-state as well as policing. With focus on empirical examples from the realm of criminal justice, students critically assess recent theoretical statements made concerning surveillance: (a) Foucault's panopticism, (b) Mathiesen's synopticism, (c) Deleuze's control societies, and (d) Haggerty/Ericson's surveillant assemblages.
Requisite courses
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