Policing terror

Authored by: Martin Innes , Darren Thiel

Handbook of Policing

Print publication date:  August  2008
Online publication date:  August  2012

Print ISBN: 9781843925002
eBook ISBN: 9780203118238
Adobe ISBN: 9781136308529

10.4324/9780203118238.ch21

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Abstract

Secrecy gives the person enshrouded by it an exceptional position … Out of this secrecy, which throws a shadow over all that is deep and significant, grows the logically fallacious, but typical, error, that everything secret is something essential and significant. (Simmel 1906: 464–5)

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