Governing through crime : how the war on crime transformed American democracy and created a culture of fear / Jonathan Simon.
Simon, Jonathan.
2007
HV6789 .S57 2007 (Mapit)
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Title Governing through crime : how the war on crime transformed American democracy and created a culture of fear / Jonathan Simon.
Author Simon, Jonathan.
ISBN 9780195181081
0195181085
Imprint Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Language English
Description viii, 330 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number HV6789 .S57 2007
Dewey Decimal Classification 364.40973/09045
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-318) and index.
Series Studies in crime and public policy
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Introduction : crime and American governance
1. Power, authority, and criminal law
2. "Prosecutor-in-Chief" : executive authority since 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 government
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 work place
9. Wars of governance : from cancer to crime to terror
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