ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the formation of a few new approaches with which some aspects of nation state social control systems may be examined. It attempts to focus on a re-evaluation of the policing process, with particular emphasis given to the new laws and technologies incorporated into the associated control structures, to increase their manipulative ability and hence their power. New technologies and techniques are integrated into social control structures to make them faster, more organized, efficient and consequently more powerful in pulsing corrective responses into the social fabric. Designed to replace the need for humans guarding the boundaries of a particular zone, with a technological entity which is usually safe until the limits defined by it are infringed. Long term widespread use of dispersive and coercive technologies as integral components of the operational control structures can amount to an attempted redefinition of political problems, into problems of technological control.
