Governmentality and the War on Terror: FBI Project Carnivore and the Diffusion of Disciplinary Power

Social control capabilities have increased significantly over the past several decades, particularly because of an increased utilization of technologically advanced surveillance methods. Following the tragic events of September 11,2001, U.S. Congress and the present Administration have granted law enforcement considerable new powers in the enforcement and prevention of terrorism-related crime. Collectively labeled under the heading of the so-called war on terror , the scope of such laws, policies and directives are challenged by civil rights organizations and numerous legislators for lack of definitional precision, arbitrary application of sanctions, and violation of privacy laws. One of federal law enforcements surveillance tools is Project Carnivore, a Justice Department Internet surveillance program that is administered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to access information flowing to and from a central processing unit on a network connection. While, theoretically relying on Michel Foucaults theory of discipline and governmentality, as well as related insights in the social control literature, this paper examines Project Carnivore relative to the larger context of state rationality and related privacy issues.     

Popular Culture and Social Control: The Moral Panic on Music Labeling

American Journal of Criminal Justice - Informed by a moral panic perspective, I analyze the music labeling debate in the United States from the mid 1980s until the early 1990s. Instigated by the...     

国际反恐警务合作——国际刑警组织和欧洲刑警组织的比较（下）

三、欧洲刑警组织与国际反恐警务 欧洲自20世纪70年代开始制定了专门的反恐政策。例如，为应对恐怖主义及相关国际犯罪，1975年。欧洲警察机构建立相关机制，交流有关恐怖主义、激进主义、极端主义和国际暴力集团的信息。1993年，《欧盟宪章》第6条对国际暴力集团、有关欧洲机构的司法惯例和移民问题进行了规制，以作为欧盟成员国之间取消边境控制的补救性措施。1997年，欧洲成立了一个反恐预备小组，以决定欧洲刑警组织在反恐事务中的职能和作用。随后的《阿姆斯特丹条约》扩大了欧洲刑警组织在反恐事务中的权限。     

The Structural Transformation of Sociology

The advent of public sociology over the past decade represents the end of a string of crisis moments in sociology. Since the 1950s and, especially, the 1960s, sociology was argued to be in a crisis because the discipline was thought to be conservative and contributing to sustain the status quo. As a result, the 1970s witnessed a radicalization of sociology, but the 1980s saw a general decline of sociology. Upon a resurgence during the 1990s, the crisis advocates have come back with a vengeance in the form of a renewed commitment to a heavily politicized sociology under the heading of public sociology, a perspective that is now thoroughly institutionalized and widely embraced. In sociology, the effects of the 1960s thus began to be felt in earnest some 40 years late.