Surveillance, Capital and Resistance is a major contribution to current debates on the subjective experience of surveillance. Based on a large research project undertaken in a Northern City in the UK and focusing mainly on the use of surveillance in the context of policing and security, the book explores how a diverse range of social groups ( school children, political protesters, offenders, unemployed people, migrants, and police officers ) experience and respond to being monitored by new surveillance technologies such as CCTV surveillance cameras and computers.

The book interweaves...