ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a brief background to the anatomy of Surveillance School and examines the modern-day fears and anxieties that circulate. It explores the emergent school surveillance economy and argues that manufacturers and suppliers of surveillance and security equipment leverage from the responsibilisation of schools in order to cultivate anxieties and risks, thus ensuring a lucrative market for their products. The neophiliac approach to technological surveillance in schools has resulted in it becoming a particularly lucrative market for vendors with safety to sell. Anxieties about schools as sites of danger and risk have generated what F. Furedi describes as a 'culture of fear', underpinned by broader anxieties of crime embedded in contemporary social and political structures. Drawing on three examples of school surveillance to illustrate the arguments presented (anti-radicalisation online monitoring, closed-circuit television and school based drug testing) the chapter examines some of the similar themes that link these distinct phenomena.
