"Everywhere you look — Britain, the States, western Europe — people are sealing themselves into crime-free enclaves. That's a mistake — a certain level of crime is part of the necessary roughage of life. Total security is a disease of deprivation."
J. G. Ballard

January 1, 1970

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Charles Prentice in Ch. 25

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