03471oam 2200661I 450 991077776470332120230721031528.00-19-774317-X1-281-16245-097866111624500-19-804002-41-4294-6900-5(CKB)1000000000473122(EBL)415389(OCoLC)476242037(SSID)ssj0000164777(PQKBManifestationID)11153421(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000164777(PQKBWorkID)10125375(PQKB)11374272(Au-PeEL)EBL415389(CaPaEBR)ebr10161096(CaONFJC)MIL116245(MiAaPQ)EBC415389(EXLCZ)99100000000047312220060224d2007 uy 0engurcn#---uuuuutxtjrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierGoverning through crime how the war on crime transformed American democracy and created a culture of fear /Jonathan SimonOxford ;New York :Oxford University Press,2007.1 online resource (330 pages)Studies in crime and public policyDescription based upon print version of record.0195181085 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Introduction: Crime and American Governance; 1 Power, Authority, and Criminal Law; 2 "Prosecutor-in-Chief": Executive Authority and the War on Crime; 3 We the Victims: Fearing Crime and Making Law; 4 Judgment and Distrust: The Jurisprudence of Crime and the Decline of Judicial Governance; 5 Project Exile: Race, the War on Crime, and Mass Imprisonment; 6 Crime Families: Governing Domestic Relations Through Crime; 7 Safe Schools: Reforming Education Through Crime; 8 Penalty Box: Crime, Victimization, and Punishment in the Deregulated Workplace9 Wars of Governance: From Cancer to Crime to TerrorNotes; References; IndexAcross America today gated communities sprawl out from urban centers, employers enforce mandatory drug testing, and schools screen students with metal detectors. Social problems ranging from welfare dependency to educational inequality have been reconceptualized as crimes, with an attendant focus on assigning fault and imposing consequences. Even before the recent terrorist attacks, non-citizen residents had become subject to an increasingly harsh regime of detention and deportation, and prospective employees subjected to background checks. How and when did our everyday world become dominatedStudies in crime and public policy.CrimePolitical aspectsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryCriminal justice, Administration ofPolitical aspectsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryCrime preventionPolitical aspectsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryCrimePolitical aspectsHistoryCriminal justice, Administration ofPolitical aspectsHistoryCrime preventionPolitical aspectsHistory364.40973/09045Simon Jonathan1959-1507206MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQStDnUADBOOK9910777764703321Governing through crime3855256UNINA