CRIM 2001 - Surveillance, Deviance & Crime

North Terrace Campus - Semester 2 - 2018

This course provides an insight into the field of surveillance studies from both a criminological and sociological perspective. Surveillance devices and practices are an increasingly familiar feature not only of crime control but also of everyday living. Data capture occurs as individuals break the law, shop, access services, browse the web, communicate and travel. As a consequence, personal information has become both a vital commodity and an exploitable resource for the wielding of power. Institutions seek to exploit such data to control `deviants?, customers and even those for whom they have a duty of care. This course takes as its starting point the theories and concepts prominent in surveillance studies and drawing upon key theorists, such as Foucault, Lyon and Haggerty, examines the extent to which these ideas offer insights into monitoring practices in late modernity. These insights are then further developed through a consideration of the broader political and economic pressures surrounding surveillance practices, including the possibilities for resistance. A range of surveillance technologies used by the state and other organisations to control both crime and the more mundane elements of everyday life will be examined throughout the course.

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Course Details

Course Code	CRIM 2001
Course	Surveillance, Deviance & Crime
Coordinating Unit	Sociology, Criminology and Gender Studies
Term	Semester 2
Level	Undergraduate
Location/s	North Terrace Campus
Units	3
Contact	Up to 3 hours per week
Available for Study Abroad and Exchange	Y
Prerequisites	At least 12 units of Level I undergraduate study
Incompatible	GSSA 2113
Assessment	Critical essay (1000 word) 30%, Group presentation 30%, Individual report (2000 word) 40%

Course Staff

Course Coordinator: Dr Andrew Hope

Course Timetable

The full timetable of all activities for this course can be accessed from Course Planner.

Course Learning Outcomes

On the successful completion of this course students will be able to:

	Understand theoretical concepts and perspectives used by sociologists and criminologists to analyse and explain surveillance practices, processes and policies.
	Critically evaluate the social impacts and resonances of surveillance in contemporary societies, with particular reference to deviance and crime.
	Understand the various reactions to surveillance practices in everyday life, particularly with regard to strategies of resistance.
	Comprehend the relational interplays between surveillance practices, monitored populations and illegal activity.
	Discern the political, economic and cultural influences responsible for the intensification of surveillance.

University Graduate Attributes

This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attribute(s) specified below:

University Graduate Attribute	Course Learning Outcome(s)
Deep discipline knowledge informed and infused by cutting edge research, scaffolded throughout their program of studies acquired from personal interaction with research active educators, from year 1 accredited or validated against national or international standards (for relevant programs)	1,5
Critical thinking and problem solving steeped in research methods and rigor based on empirical evidence and the scientific approach to knowledge development demonstrated through appropriate and relevant assessment	2,3,4
Teamwork and communication skills developed from, with, and via the SGDE honed through assessment and practice throughout the program of studies encouraged and valued in all aspects of learning	2,3,4,5
Career and leadership readiness technology savvy professional and, where relevant, fully accredited forward thinking and well informed tested and validated by work based experiences	2,5
Intercultural and ethical competency adept at operating in other cultures comfortable with different nationalities and social contexts able to determine and contribute to desirable social outcomes demonstrated by study abroad or with an understanding of indigenous knowledges	1,2,5
Self-awareness and emotional intelligence a capacity for self-reflection and a willingness to engage in self-appraisal open to objective and constructive feedback from supervisors and peers able to negotiate difficult social situations, defuse conflict and engage positively in purposeful debate	2,3

Learning Resources

Required Resources

Weekly readings

Week 01 Waking up in a surveillance society

O’Brien, M & Yar, M. (2008) Surveillance, In M. O’Brien M. Yar, M (Eds) Criminology: The Key Concepts. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon. Pp 166-169.

Gilliom, J. & Monahan, T. (2013) SuperVision: An Introduction to the Surveillance society. Pp 1-10. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Week 02 Are prisons panoptic?

Foucault, M. (1977) Panopticism (an extract from Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Modern Prison. New York: Vintage) In C. Greer (Ed.) (2010) Crime and Media: A Reader. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. Pp 493-505.

Smith, C. (2012) Corrections In Hayes, H. & Penzler, T. (Eds) An Introduction to Crime and Criminology. Frenches Forest, NSW: Pearson. Pp 290-302.

Week 03 Watching the neighbours: crime prevention and community safety
Boyne, R. (2000) ‘Post-Panopticism.’ Economy and Society 29(2): 285-307.

Kelly, A. and Finlayson, A., 2015. Can Facebook save Neighbourhood Watch? The Police Journal, p.0032258X15570557.

Week 04 The new penology and police surveillance

Haggerty, K. (2012) Surveillance, crime and the police. In K. Ball, K. Haggerty & D. Lyon (Eds.) Routledge Handbook of Surveillance Studies. New York: Routledge. Pp 235-243.

Newburn, T. (2013) Criminology. London: Routledge. 327-347
This chapter on ‘Late modernity, governmentality and risk’ not only discusses new penology (p. 345), but also gives an excellent overview of Discipline and Punish, governmentality (we return to this concept later in the course) and Garland’s Culture of Control.

Week 05 The security industry and the surveillance assemblage

Prenzler, T. and Sarre, R. (2009) The Policing Complex. In A. Graycar and P. Grabosky (Eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Australian Criminology. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 52-72.

Haggerty, K. D. and Ericson, R. V. (2000), The surveillant assemblage. The British Journal of Sociology, 51: 605–622.

Week 06 Transnational crime and (in)security

Bigo, Didier (2004) ‘Global (In)security: The Field of the Professionals of Unease Management and the Ban-opticon’, in Jon Solomon and Sakai Naoki (Eds) Traces: A Multilingual Series of Cultural Theory, No. 4 (Sovereign Police, Global Complicity). Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong Press. Pp 5-49. [Extract]
The language is often complex, but try to focus on the main ideas rather than the details.

Goldsmith, A.J. (2012). Crimes across borders. In M Marmo, W de Lint & D Palmer, ed. Crime and Justice: A guide to criminology. 4th ed. Sydney, NSW: Thomson Reuters, pp. 275-302.

Week 07 Surveillance, media and crime

Doyle, A. (2011), ‘Revisiting the Synopticon: Reconsidering Mathiesen’s ‘The Viewer Society’ in the Age of Web 2.0’, Theoretical Criminology, 15: 283–99.

McCahill, M. (2012) Crime, surveillance and media. In K. Ball, K. Haggerty & D. Lyon (Eds.) Routledge Handbook of Surveillance Studies. New York: Routledge. Pp 244-50.

Week 08 Crime and the rise of the surveillance school

Hope, A. (2015) Governmentality and the 'selling' of school surveillance devices. The Sociological Review. 63(4), pp 840-857.

O’Malley, P. (2013) Governmentality, In McLaughlin, E. and Muncie, J. (2013) (Third edition) The Sage Dictionary of Criminology. London: Sage. Pp 208-210.

Week 09 Surveillance, power and social impacts

Coleman, R. & MacCahill, M. (2011) Surveillance & Crime. London: Sage. Pp. 111-142.

Week 10 Resistance, play and surveillance

Gilliom, J. and Monaham, T. (2012) Everyday Resistance, In K. Ball, K. Haggerty & D. Lyon (Eds.) Routledge Handbook of Surveillance Studies. New York: Routledge. Pp 244-50.

Marx, G. (2009). A Tack in the Shoe and Taking Off the Shoe: Neutralization and Counter-neutralization Dynamics. Surveillance and Society 6(3): 295-306.
Week 11 Criminological futures, control and bodies caught in the net

Hope, A. (In print) Biopower and school surveillance technologies 2.0. The British Journal of Sociology of Education. Pre-print version available online at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01425692.2014.1001060#.VNlvbf6KCUk [Extract]

Trottier, D. (2014) Crowdsourcing CCTV surveillance on the Internet, Information, Communication & Society, 17:5, 609-626.

Week 12: No lectures or seminars. Complete assignment 03

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Workload

The information below is provided as a guide to assist students in engaging appropriately with the course requirements.

WORKLOAD	TOTAL HOURS
1 x 1 hour lecture per week (x 12)	12 hours
1 x 2 hour seminar per week (x 12)	24 hours
1 x 4 hours reading (x 12)	48 hours
1 x 3 hours research per week (x 12)	36 hours
1 x 3 hours assignment preparation each week (x 12)	36 hours
	Total = 156 hours

Learning Activities Summary

Week	Lecture Topic	Key Concepts
1	Waking up in a surveillance society	Care and control Surveillance 2.0
2	Are prisons panoptic?	Panopticism
3*	Watching the neighbours: crime prevention and community safety	Post-panopticism Culture of control
4	The new penology and police surveillance	The new penology Risk Dataveillance
5*	The security industry and the surveillance assemblage	Surveillance assemblage Big data Data doubles
6	Transnational crime and (in)security	The ban-opticon
7	Surveillance, media and crime	Synopticism
8	Crime and the rise of the surveillance school	Governmentality
9	Surveillance, power and social impacts	New surveillance Power Light Touch surveillance
10	Resistance, play and surveillance	Resistance Sousveillance
11*	Criminological futures, social control and bodies caught in the net	Biopower Surveillance creep Panspectron
12	No lecture Focus on assignment 03.

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Assessment Summary

ASSESSMENT TASK	TASK TYPE	WEIGHTING	COURSE LEARNING OUTCOME(S)	Submission Date
	Formative and Summative	30%	1, 5	Sunday 3^rd April 2016
	Formative and Summative	30%	1, 2, 5	Timetabled seminar slots in the weeks beginning 10 May and 17 May 2016
	Formative and Summative	40%	1, 2, 3, 4, 5,	Sunday 12^th June 2016

Assessment Detail

Assignment 01 Short essay 30% weighting

This assignment is a short essay of 1000 words (not including the bibliography). You are allowed 10% (100 words) over or under this word count.

Drawing upon either panopticism or the new penology critically discuss how the state (and its associated organisations) utilises surveillance to control the population.

Assignment 02 Group presentation 30% weighting

Group Presentations will occur in the regularly timetabled seminar slots in the weeks beginning 10 May and 17 May 2016.

As part of the Small Group Discovery Experience component of this course students will be expected to work together in groups of around five to examine a particular organisation that undertakes surveillance of the population with the purpose of crime control and / or maintaining social order. Examples could include the police, prison services, schools, private security firms etc. As a group you need to research and then describe the surveillance activities of this particular organisation. If you choose a large, diverse institution, such as the police, you should choose to focus on a particular group within the organisation.

Your choice of focus needs to be approved by the seminar tutor.

Please don’t copy the lectures!

Each group will then present for 10-12 minutes:
1) Outlining the surveillance activities of their chosen case study.
2) Providing examples from their case study of known incidents of crime / deviance / social control where surveillance technologies were utilised.
3) Make a judgement regarding the effectiveness of these surveillance technologies.

Each member of the group must take part in the presentation. The group will be given a single combined mark for their presentation.

Assignment 03 Individual report 40% weighting

You must write an individual report that is 2000 words in length (not including the bibliography). You are allowed 10% (200 words) over or under this word count.

The report should focus on the same topic selected for your group presentation. There are two key elements to this report. Firstly it must provide a description of surveillance activities undertaken by the selected organisation. Secondly, you must use at least two concepts from the lectures (listed under key concepts in the lecture overview list) to explore how the technologies described seek to exert control and are resisted. If you wish you can use the same concept you discussed in assignment 1.

Submission

All assignments are to be submitted online via MyUni.

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Course Grading

Grades for your performance in this course will be awarded in accordance with the following scheme:

M10 (Coursework Mark Scheme)
Grade	Mark	Description
FNS		Fail No Submission
F	1-49	Fail
P	50-64	Pass
C	65-74	Credit
D	75-84	Distinction
HD	85-100	High Distinction
CN		Continuing
NFE		No Formal Examination
RP		Result Pending

Further details of the grades/results can be obtained from Examinations.

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