Governing through crime : how the war on crime transformed American democracy and created a culture of fear / / Jonathan Simon
(Visualizza in formato marc)
(Visualizza in BIBFRAME)
| Autore: |
Simon Jonathan <1959->
|
| Titolo: |
Governing through crime : how the war on crime transformed American democracy and created a culture of fear / / Jonathan Simon
|
| Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (330 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 364.40973/09045 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 Workplace |
| 9 Wars of Governance: From Cancer to Crime to TerrorNotes; References; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Across 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 dominated |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Governing through crime |
| ISBN: | 0-19-774317-X |
| 1-281-16245-0 | |
| 9786611162450 | |
| 0-19-804002-4 | |
| 1-4294-6900-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910777764703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Studies in crime and public policy.