Haggerty (sociology and criminology, U. of Alberta, Canada) and Ericson (criminology, U. of Toronto, Canada) present 14 papers applying a variety of social science perspectives and approaches to understanding the politics of surveillance in modern society. The papers discuss surveillance and "the society of control," varieties of personal information as influences on attitudes towards surveillance, resistance to surveillance; US policies aiming at "total information awareness," social control and the broadcasting of surveillance footage of crimes, surveillance and military transformation, surveillance and information war, consumer anxiety and surveillance, surveillant Internet technologies and the growth in information capitalism, and data mining surveillance and discrimination in the post-9/11 environment. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)