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David H. Price, "The American Surveillance State: How the US Spies on Dissent" (Pluto Press, 2022)

New Books in Anthropology

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How Surveillance Does Not Prevent Crime

I teach about surveillance and I show them how surveillance does not prevent crime. And then at the end of the day, my students agree with me. They totally agree with me to a certain extent. But then they say, like your students, you mentioned in your book, they say, if this is going to prevent another terror attack, then I'm sacrificing sacrifice all my liberties. So it worked to respond to their share their statements immediately. We don't live in that world. As we all know, this sort of Philip K Dick minority report urge that the state has to be able to predict crime before it happens.

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