The use of Closed-Circuit Television, or CCTV, has dramatically increased over the past decade, but its presence is often so subtle as to go unnoticed.

Clive Norris University of Sheffield Gary Armstrong Lecturer,Department of Sport Science, Brunel University

Part I: Images of Social Control, Introduction: Visions of Surveillance, A History of Photographic Surveillance and the Rise of CCTV, The Ever Present Gaze: CCTV Surveillance in Britain, The Selling of CCTV: Political and Media Discourses Part II: The Unforgiving Eye, Introduction: Watching the Watchers - Theory and Method, The Watchers and the Watched: The Social Structuring of Surveillance, Working Rules and the Social Construction of Suspicion, Communications and Consequences, From Images to Action: From the Control Room to the Street, Part III: Seeing the Future, Towards the Maximum Surveillance Society