Surveillance and Security in America

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This paper briefly explores some of the sociological implications swirling around the expansion of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The writer also discusses the general increase in formal and informal surveillance after 11 September, 2001. The paper looks at the impact upon America in terms of civil liberties, the financial cost of surveillance, and the impact upon America's standing in the world.

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"This paper explores the wide-spread implications of the Homeland Security Act and greater surveillance upon America's civil liberties, personal rights and freedoms, its government size and spending, and upon its foreign relations. The significance of the research paper - theoretically and practically - can be answered in two parts. In a theoretical sense, the animating question of this paper is important because it forces us to re-evaluate our traditional American understanding of the relationship of the government to its citizens."

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