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Governing through crime : how the war on crime transformed American democracy and created a culture of fear / Jonathan Simon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Simon, Jonathan, 1959- author.
- Series:
- Studies in crime and public policy.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Studies in crime and public policy
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Crime prevention--Political aspects--United States--History--20th century.
- Crime prevention.
- Crime--Political aspects--United States--History--20th century.
- Crime.
- Criminal justice, Administration of--Political aspects--United States--History--20th century.
- Criminal justice, Administration of.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (330 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Across America today gated communities sprawl out from urban centers, employers enforce mandatory drug testing, and schools screen students with metal detectors. Social problems ranging from welfare dependency to educational inequality have been reconceptualized as crimes, with an attendant focus on assigning fault and imposing consequences. Even before the recent terrorist attacks, non-citizen residents had become subject to an increasingly harsh regime of detention and deportation, and prospective employees subjected to background checks. How and when did our everyday world become dominated
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction: Crime and American Governance; 1 Power, Authority, and Criminal Law; 2 "Prosecutor-in-Chief": Executive Authority and the War on Crime; 3 We the Victims: Fearing Crime and Making Law; 4 Judgment and Distrust: The Jurisprudence of Crime and the Decline of Judicial Governance; 5 Project Exile: Race, the War on Crime, and Mass Imprisonment; 6 Crime Families: Governing Domestic Relations Through Crime; 7 Safe Schools: Reforming Education Through Crime; 8 Penalty Box: Crime, Victimization, and Punishment in the Deregulated Workplace
- 9 Wars of Governance: From Cancer to Crime to TerrorNotes; References; Index
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2007.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-774317-X
- 1-281-16245-0
- 9786611162450
- 0-19-804002-4
- 1-4294-6900-5
- OCLC:
- 476242037
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