Surveillance, closed circuit television and social control
Sheptycki J.
2000
Policing and Society
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10.1080/10439463.2000.9964826
They flock into the cities; love to receive and communicate knowledge; to show their wit or their breeding; their taste in conversation or living, in clothes or furniture. Curiosity allures the wise; vanity the foolish; and pleasure both. Particular clubs and societies are everywhere formed: Both sexes meet in an easy and sociable manner; and the tempers of men, as well as their behaviour, refine space. So that beside the improvements which they receive from knowledge and the liberal arts, it is impossible but they must feel an increase in humanity, from the very habit of conversing together, and contribute to each other's pleasure and entertainment. Thus industry, knowledge and humanity are linked together by an indissoluble chain, and are found from experience as well as reason, to be peculiar to the more polished, and what are commonly denominated, the more luxurious ages. (David Hume, Of Luxury, 1752). © 2000, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
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