Governing Through Crime How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear

Name: Governing Through Crime How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear
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ISBN: 9780195181081

ISBN-10: 0195181085

ISBN-13: 9780195181081

Edition: 2006

Authors: Jonathan Simon

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All over America today, schoolyards are equipped with metal detectors and gated communities flourish. Pat-downs are a regular occurrence at airports and strollers are strip-searched at shopping malls. How and when did our everyday world become dominated by fear, every citizen treated as a potential criminal? In this groundbreaking work, Jonathan Simon argues that our institutions of everyday life - our schools, our families, our workplaces, our residential communities - are now being governed through crime. Tracing this pattern back to the mid-60's, Simon shows how the collapse of the New Deal left political leaders with the problem of searching for new models of governance, a problem to…

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List price: $56.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/3/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 344
Size: 9.29" wide x 6.10" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



Introduction: Crime and American Governance



Power, Authority, and Criminal Law



"Prosecutor-in-Chief": Executive Authority and the War on Crime



We the Victims: Fearing Crime and Making Law



Judgment and Distrust: The Jurisprudence of Crime and the Decline of Judicial Governance



Project Exile: Race, the War on Crime, and Mass Imprisonment



Crime Families: Governing Domestic Relations Through Crime



Safe Schools: Reforming Education Through Crime



Penalty Box: Crime, Victimization, and Punishment in the Deregulated Workplace



Wars of Governance: From Cancer to Crime to Terror


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