curfews target dark hours when appearance, surveillance, and intimacy peak

Evidence

In a personal communication, Gerald Suttles has suggested that the fact that “people were confined to their ghettoes primarily during the hours after curfew suggests that the main object was to segregate them during those periods when (1) the appearential order was least visible; (2) supervision and surveillance were weakest; and (3) casual relations and love making were at their height.” — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 1101

Categorization

• XREF: Directly advances the reader’s core purpose: curfews exploit the time window when the appearential order — the only trust device in the anonymous city — fails to operate.