How do people respond to surveillance? A longstanding view of police departments is that surveillance promotes criminal deterrence (Marx 2003). People are less likely to speed on the highway if they know the police are watching. But, by the same logic, various forms of surveillance may deter behavior that is not criminal, merely stigmatized. The central concern of many civil liberties advocates is that a growing surveillance state may deter perfectly legal forms of behavior, thought, and expression due to fear of exposure (Ball 2009; Marx 2016). For precisely this reason, new forms of surveillance often yield not only deterrence, but also new waves of resistance against them.

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1. Ball, Kirstie. 2009. Exposure: Exploring the subject of surveillance. Information, Communication & Society 12(5):639-657.


2. Marx, Gary T. 2003. A tack in the shoe: Neutralizing and resisting the new surveillance. Journal of Social Issues, 59(2):369-390.


3. Marx, Gary T. 2016. Windows into the Soul: Surveillance and Society in an Age of High Technology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.