The social impact of surveillance in three UK schools : 'angels', 'devils' and 'teen mums' (2010)
Journal Article
McCahill, M., & Finn, R. (2010). The social impact of surveillance in three UK schools : 'angels', 'devils' and 'teen mums'. Surveillance and Society, 7(3-4), 273-289. https://doi.org/10.24908/ss.v7i3/4.4156

Drawing upon the preliminary findings of a broader ESRC-funded project on the 'surveilled', this paper examines the social impact of 'new surveillance' technologies on the lives of school children living in a Northern City. We conducted fifteen one-h... Read More about The social impact of surveillance in three UK schools : 'angels', 'devils' and 'teen mums'.

The privatised lifer : an observation of a cohort of life-sentenced prisoners through HMP Wolds December 2003 – July 2005 (2008)
Thesis
Peake, R. (2008). The privatised lifer : an observation of a cohort of life-sentenced prisoners through HMP Wolds December 2003 – July 2005. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4208541

This research proved a unique opportunity to observe a cohort of 20 life-sentenced prisoners that had already negotiated an often fragmented and difficult ‘system’. These prisoners were at the Category-C stage of their sentence (medium security) and... Read More about The privatised lifer : an observation of a cohort of life-sentenced prisoners through HMP Wolds December 2003 – July 2005.

Plural Policing and CCTV Surveillance (2008)
Book Chapter
McCahill, M. (2008). Plural Policing and CCTV Surveillance. Surveillance and Governance: Crime Control and Beyond (199 - 219). Emerald Publishing

This chapter aims to make a contribution to recent debates on the 'governance of security' (Johnston & Shearing, 2003) by drawing upon empirical research conducted by the author and other writers on 'plural policing' and the construction of closed ci... Read More about Plural Policing and CCTV Surveillance.

CCTV: Beyond penal modernism? (2005)
Journal Article
Norris, C., & McCahill, M. (2006). CCTV: Beyond penal modernism?. The British journal of criminology, 46(1), 97-118. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azi047

In recent years, a number of writers have suggested that contemporary strategies of crime control have called into question some of the central features of 'penal modernism'. The return of punitively orientated 'ostentatious' forms of punishment wher... Read More about CCTV: Beyond penal modernism?.

CCTV and policing: Public area surveillance and police practices in Britain. By Benjamin J. Goold (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004, 244 pp (2005)
Journal Article
McCahill, M. (2005). CCTV and policing: Public area surveillance and police practices in Britain. By Benjamin J. Goold (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004, 244 pp. The British journal of criminology, 45(2), 234 - 236

The surveillance web : the rise and extent of visual surveillance in a northern city (1999)
Thesis
McCahill, M. (1999). The surveillance web : the rise and extent of visual surveillance in a northern city. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4219142

Surveillance is something which has always existed. In the tribal cultures of preindustrial society, for example, the level of social surveillance was intense, because most people could see and hear just about everything that was going on in the camp... Read More about The surveillance web : the rise and extent of visual surveillance in a northern city.

Surveillance & Crime
Book
McCahill, M., & Coleman, R. Surveillance & Crime. The University of Hull

Surveillance has a long-standing relationship with crime and its identification, prevention, detection and punishment. With information on each citizen spanning up to 700 databases, and over 4 million CCTV cameras in the United Kingdom alone, this bo... Read More about Surveillance & Crime.

The surveillance of 'prolific' offenders : beyond 'docile bodies'
Journal Article
McCahill, M., & Finn, R. The surveillance of 'prolific' offenders : beyond 'docile bodies'. Punishment and Society, 15(1), 23-42. https://doi.org/10.1177/1462474512466198

This article uses ethnographic research to explore how a sample of state-defined ‘prolific’ offenders living in Northern City (a small city in the North of England) experience and respond to a surveillance regime which includes ‘appointments’, ‘track... Read More about The surveillance of 'prolific' offenders : beyond 'docile bodies'.