Table of Contents: Governing through crime :

Main Author:	Simon, Jonathan, 1959-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Series:	Studies in crime and public policy
Subjects:	Crime > Political aspects > 20th century. > United States > History Criminal justice, Administration of > Political aspects > 20th century. > United States > History Crime prevention > Political aspects > 20th century. > United States > History Crime. Crime prevention. Criminal justice, Administration of. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology. Crime > Political aspects. Crime prevention > Political aspects. Criminal justice, Administration of > Political aspects. United States.
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Table of Contents:

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.