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Governing through crime : how the war on crime transformed American democracy and created a culture of fear /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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| Colección: | Studies in crime and public policy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.