Little England? The rise of open-street closed-circuit television surveillance in Canada

Surveillance and Society

Volumn 4, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 29-51

  Walby, Kevin ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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