Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity by Loïc Wacquant

Patrick Derby is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology at Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario). He is a member of the Surveillance Studies Centre and a founding member of the Surveillance Cameras Awareness Network (SCAN). Patrick's research interests include the political economy of punishment and crime control, as well as the new technologies of surveillance and control. His doctoral dissertation critically explores the politics of automated license plate recognition (ALPR) as an emerging law enforcement technology.