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Governing through crime : how the war on crime transformed American democracy and created a culture of fear
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Governing through crime : how the war on crime transformed American democracy and created a culture of fear

著者: Jonathan Simon
出版商: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
丛书: Studies in crime and public policy.
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From the Publisher: 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  再读一些...
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所有的著者/提供者: Jonathan Simon
ISBN: 0195181085 9780195181081 9780195386011 0195386019
OCLC号码: 64591955
描述: viii, 330 p. ; 24 cm.
内容: 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.
丛书名: Studies in crime and public policy.
责任: Jonathan Simon.
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From the Publisher: 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 by fear, every citizen treated as a potential criminal? In this startlingly original work, Jonathan Simon traces this pattern back to the collapse of the New Deal approach to governing during the 1960s when declining confidence in expert-guided government policies sent political leaders searching for new models of governance. The War on Crime offered a ready solution to their problem: politicians set agendas by drawing analogies to crime and redefined the ideal citizen as a crime victim, one whose vulnerabilities opened the door to overweening government intervention. By the 1980s, this transformation of the core powers of government had spilled over into the institutions that govern daily life. Soon our schools, our families, our workplaces, and our residential communities were being governed through crime. This powerful work concludes with a call for passive citizens to become engaged partners in the management of risk and the treatment of social ills. Only by coming together to produce security, can we free ourselves from a logic of domination by others, and from the fear that currently rules our everyday life.

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"Every thoughtful citizen should confront the arguments that are so lucidly presented in this book. Highly recommended." --CHOICE


"In Governing through Crime, Jonathan Simon powerfully and persuasively argues that America's obsession with crime has touched, indeed distorted, the fundamental building blocks of our democratic society. According to this sweeping analysis, our conception of the centrality of crime in American life has redefined the powers of government, the role of families and 再读一些...

 
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