Governing through crime [electronic resource] : how the war on crime transformed American democracy and created a culture of fear / Jonathan Simon.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Simon, Jonathan, 1959-
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Subjects:
Crime > Political aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Criminal justice, Administration of > Political aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Crime prevention > Political aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Online Access:
ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2007 (Ebook Central @ Proquest)
Mass Incarceration and Prison Studies (Text): 2007 (Alexander Street)
EBSCO eBooks: 2007 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2007 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
Governing Through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear
Format: Electronic eBook
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.