Kirstie Ball is Reader in Surveillance and Organization at The Open University Business School. Her research focuses on surveillance and global capital, and the experience of surveillance. She co-founded the journal the Surveillance & Society and is a director of the Surveillance Studies Network.

Kevin D. Haggerty is editor of the Canadian Journal of Sociology and book review editor of the international journal Surveillance & Society. He is Professor of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Alberta and a member of the executive team for the New Transparency Major Collaborative Research Initiative.David Lyon holds a Research Chair in Surveillance Studies, is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Surveillance Studies Centre at Queen's University, Canada.

Preface: 'Your Papers Please': Personal and Professional Encounters with Surveillance. Introduction: Introducing Surveillance Studies Part 1: Understanding Surveillance Part 1 Introduction 1.1. Theory 1: After Foucault 1.1.a. Panopticon - Discipline - Control 1.1.b. Simulation and Post-Panopticism 1.1.c. Surveillance As Biopower 1.2. Theory 2: Difference, Politics, Privacy 1.2.a. 'You Shouldn't Wear That Body' - The Problematic of Surveillance and Gender 1.2.b. The Information State: A Historical Perspective on Surveillance 1.2.c. Needs For Surveillance and the Movement to Protect Privacy 1.2.d. Race and Surveillance 1.3. Cultures of Surveillance 1.3.a. Performing Surveillance 1.3.b. Ubiquitous Surveillance 1.3.c. Surveillance in Literature, Film and Television 1.3.d. Surveillance Work(ers) Part 2: Surveillance as Sorting Part 2 Introduction 2.1. Surveillance Techniques 2.1.a. Statistical Surveillance: Remote Sensing in the Digital Age 2.1.b. Advertising's New Surveillance Ecosystem 2.1.c. New Technologies, Security and Surveillance 2.2. Social Divisions of Surveillance 2.2.a. Colonialism and Surveillance 2.2.b. Identity, Surveillance and Modernity: Sorting Out Who's Who 2.2.c. The Surveillance-Industrial Complex 2.2.d. The Body as Data in the Age of Information Part 3: Surveillance Contexts Part 3 Introduction 3.1. Population Control 3.1.a. Borders, Identification, and Surveillance: New Regimes of Border Control 3.1.b. Urban Spaces of Surveillance 3.1.c. Seeing Population: Census and Surveillance By Numbers 3.1.d. Surveillance and Non-Humans 3.1.e. The Rise of the Surveillance School 3.2. Crime and Policing 3.2.a. Surveillance, Crime and the Police 3.2.b. Crime, Surveillance and the Media 3.2.c. The Success of Failure: Accounting For the Global Growth of CCTV 3.2.d. Surveillance and Urban Violence In Latin America: Mega Cities, Social Division, Security and Surveillance 3.3. Security, Intelligence, War 3.3.a. Military Surveillance 3.3.b. Security, Surveillance and Democracy 3.3.c. Surveillance and Terrorism 3.3.d. The Globalization of Homeland Security 3.4. Production, Consumption, Administration 3.4.a. Organization, Employees and Surveillance 3.4.b. Public Administration as Surveillance 3.4.c. Consumer Surveillance: Context, Perspectives and Concerns in the Personal Information Economy 3.5. Digital Spaces of Surveillance 3.5.a. Globalization and Surveillance 3.5.b. Surveillance and Participation on the Web 2.0 3.5.c. Hide and Seek: Surveillance of Young People on the Internet Part 4: Limiting Surveillance Part IV Introduction 4.1. Ethics, Law and Policy 4.1.a. A Surveillance of Care - Evaluating Surveillance Ethically 4.1.b. Regulating Surveillance: The Importance of Principles 4.1.c. Privacy, Identity and Anonymity 4.2. Regulation and Resistance 4.2.a. Regulating Surveillance Technologies: Institutional Arrangements 4.2.b. Everyday Resistance 4.2.c. Privacy Advocates, Privacy Advocacy and the Surveillance Society 4.2.d. The Politics of Surveillance: Civil Liberties, Human Rights and Ethics