This book makes a key contribution to theoretical debates around social control, providing a study of social control in Liverpool city centre, exploring the development of, and meaning attributed to, social control practices by those at the centre of the implementation and management of these practices.
Roy Coleman is Lecturer in Sociology in the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work Studies at Liverpool University.
1. Introduction: 'The friendly eye in the sky' 2. The disappearing state: social control, social order and the state 3. Rediscovering the state: understanding camera surveillance as a social ordering practice 4. The neoliberal city and social control 5. From the dockyards to the Disney store: the historical trajectory of social control in Liverpool 6. State, partnership and power: excavating neoliberal rule in the city 7. Reclaiming the streets: the techniques and norms of contemporary social control 8. Conclusion: visualising the neoliberal city