TY - BOOK AU - Simon,Jonathan ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Governing through crime : how the war on crime transformed American democracy and created a culture of fear SN - 0195181085 (cloth) AV - HV6789 .S57 2007 U1 - 364.40973/09045 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Oxford, New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Crime KW - Political aspects KW - United States KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Criminal justice, Administration of KW - Crime prevention KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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 UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/osterlin/Doc?id=10161096 ER -