{"product_id":"governing-through-crime-how-the-war-on-crime-transformed-american-democracy-and-created-a-culture-of-fear-9780195386011","title":"Governing Through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear","description":"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\u003cbr\u003efocus 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\u003cbr\u003edominated by fear, every citizen treated as a potential criminal? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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\u003cbr\u003eready 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\u003cbr\u003eover into the institutions that govern daily life. Soon our schools, our families, our workplaces, and our residential communities were being governed through crime. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis 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\u003cbr\u003eeveryday life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jonathan Simon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/08\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780195386011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJonathan Simon\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Dean of Jurisprudence and Social Policy and Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. Co-editor of the journal \u003cem\u003ePunishment \u0026amp; Society\u003c\/em\u003e, he is also the author of \u003cem\u003ePoor Discipline: Parole and the Social Control of the Underclass, 1890-1990\u003c\/em\u003e and co-editor of two other volumes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40234704207987,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":31.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_9b08a139-ac29-45d8-a74b-0f52a18ea383.jpg?v=1657026726","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/governing-through-crime-how-the-war-on-crime-transformed-american-democracy-and-created-a-culture-of-fear-9780195386011","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}