Explores the hidden history of surveillance, from controlling slaves in the old South to implementing early criminal justice, tracking immigrants, and monitoring the poor as part of modern social work, and discusses the role computers and new technology play in American surveillance.
year: 2003
call number/section: 303.3
subjects: social control, united states, history, electronic surveillance, social aspects, political culture, privacy, right of, war on terrorism, 2001-2009, social conflict, remote sensing, right of privacy