Governing through crime [print and electronic resource]: how the war on crime transformed American democracy and created a culture of fear / Jonathan Simon.
Series: Studies in crime and public policyPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.Description: viii, 330 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0195181085 (cloth)
- 9780195181081 (cloth)
- 364.40973/09045 22
- HV6789 .S57 2007
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-318) and index.
Introduction : crime and American governance -- Power, authority, and criminal law -- "Prosecutor-in-Chief": executive authority since the war on crime -- We the victims : fearing crime and making law -- Judgment and distrust : the jurisprudence of crime and the decline of judicial government -- 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 work place -- Wars of governance : from cancer to crime to terror.