Threat perceptions : the policing of dangers from eugenics to the war on terrorism /

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Threat Perceptions: The Policing of Dangers from Eugenics to the War on Terrorism examines the legal, scientific, and social construction of risk of crime in the United States. Ghatak focuses on the crime control policies that stretched from the beginning of the era of Eugenics and the rise of crimi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ghatak, Saran, 1973-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, 2011.
Series:Issues in crime & justice (Lanham, Md.)
Subjects:
Crime prevention > United States > History.
Threat (Psychology) > History.
Menace (Psychologie) > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Crime prevention
Threat (Psychology)
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Science and criminal danger in the nineteenth century
  • Eugenics and hereditarianism in the United States
  • Origin of the psychopathology of crime
  • The advent of actuarial justice
  • Policing of political dissent
  • "Risk wars" : the campaign against terrorism.

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