Governing through crime : how the war on crime transformed American democracy and created a culture of fear / Jonathan Simon.
| Author/creator |
Simon, Jonathan, 1959- |
| Format | Electronic and Book |
| Publication Info | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, |
| Description | viii, 330 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
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| Series | Studies in crime and public policy |
| Contents | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-318) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2006006732 |
| ISBN | 0195181085 (cloth) |
| ISBN | 9780195181081 (cloth) |
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