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Book Governing Through Crime   How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear

Download or read book Governing Through Crime How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear written by Berkeley Jonathan Simon Associate Dean of Jurisprudence and Social Policy and Professor of Law University of California and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007-01-05 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Transparency and Rule of Law in Latin America

Download or read book Transparency and Rule of Law in Latin America written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Free Market Criminal Justice

Download or read book Free Market Criminal Justice written by Darryl K. Brown and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Free Market Criminal Justice' explains how excessive faith in democratic politics and free markets has undermined the rule of law in U.S. criminal process.

Book The State of Democracy in Latin America

Download or read book The State of Democracy in Latin America written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Democratizing the Police Abroad

Download or read book Democratizing the Police Abroad written by David H. Bayley and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of Criminal Justice

Download or read book History of Criminal Justice written by Mark Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-07-22 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering criminal justice history on a cross-national basis, this book surveys criminal justice in Western civilization and American life chronologically from ancient times to the present. It is an introduction to the historical problems of crime, law enforcement and penology, set against the background of major historical events and movements. Integrating criminal justice history into the scope of European, British, French and American history, this text provides the opportunity for comparisons of crime and punishment over boundaries of national histories. The text now concludes with a chapter that addresses terrorism and homeland security.

Book Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications

Download or read book Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications written by United States. Superintendent of Documents and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 1068 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: February issue includes Appendix entitled Directory of United States Government periodicals and subscription publications; September issue includes List of depository libraries; June and December issues include semiannual index

Book Monthly Catalogue  United States Public Documents

Download or read book Monthly Catalogue United States Public Documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 1690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Democracy in the Western Hemisphere  Achievements and Challenges

Download or read book Democracy in the Western Hemisphere Achievements and Challenges written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book in the aftermath of war US support

Download or read book in the aftermath of war US support written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The System of Justice in Bolivia

Download or read book The System of Justice in Bolivia written by Eduardo Gamarra and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Modernizing Repression

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jeremy Kuzmarov
  • Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 1558499172
  • Pages : 402 pages

Download or read book Modernizing Repression written by Jeremy Kuzmarov and published by Univ of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A probing analysis of the impact of American policing operations abroad

Book Special Report   The Department of State

Download or read book Special Report The Department of State written by United States. Department of State. Office of Public Communication and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Special Report

Download or read book Special Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Introduction to Comparative Legal Models of Criminal Justice

Download or read book An Introduction to Comparative Legal Models of Criminal Justice written by Gillyanne Kayes and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated to reflect changes in the criminal justice systems in several countries, An Introduction to Comparative Legal Models of Criminal Justice, Second Edition explores and illustrates the idea that a countrys legal model determines the character of its police, corrections, and legal system. It focuses on how law shapes policing, including how it

Book Violence at the Urban Margins

Download or read book Violence at the Urban Margins written by Javier Auyero and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Americas, debates around issues of citizen's public safety--from debates that erupt after highly publicized events, such as the shootings of Jordan Davis and Trayvon Martin, to those that recurrently dominate the airwaves in Latin America--are dominated by members of the middle and upper-middle classes. However, a cursory count of the victims of urban violence in the Americas reveals that the people suffering the most from violence live, and die, at the lowest of the socio-symbolic order, at the margins of urban societies. The inhabitants of the urban margins are hardly ever heard in discussions about public safety. They live in danger but the discourse about violence and risk belongs to, is manufactured and manipulated by, others--others who are prone to view violence at the urban margins as evidence of a cultural, or racial, defect, rather than question violence's relationship to economic and political marginalization. As a result, the experience of interpersonal violence among the urban poor becomes something unspeakable, and the everyday fear and trauma lived in relegated territories is constantly muted and denied. This edited volume seeks to counteract this pernicious tendency by putting under the ethnographic microscope--and making public--the way in which violence is lived and acted upon in the urban peripheries. It features cutting-edge ethnographic research on the role of violence in the lives of the urban poor in South, Central, and North America, and sheds light on the suffering that violence produces and perpetuates, as well as the individual and collective responses that violence generates, among those living at the urban margins of the Americas.