governing through crime how the war on crime transformed american democracy

Very good viii, [2], 330, [2] pages. Notes. References. Index. Front cover has minor wear and edge soiling. Long handwritten statement on page 1. This is one of the Studies in Crime and Public Policy series. Jonathan Simon is an American academic, the Lance Robbins Professor of Criminal Justice Law, and the former Associate Dean of the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program at the UC Berkeley School of Law. Simon's scholarship concerns the role of crime and criminal justice in governing contemporary societies, risk and the law, and the history of the interdisciplinary study of law. His other interests include criminology; penology; sociology; insurance models of governing risk; governance; the origins and consequences of, and solutions to, the California prison "crisis"; parole; prisons; capital punishment; immigration detention; and the warehousing of incarcerated people. Simon began teaching at the University of California, Berkeley in 2003. He published his second monograph, Governing through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear, in 2007, analyzing how problems like poverty and educational inequality became criminalized in the shadow of the New Deal. The book was praised as "the most important and most readable treatment to date on the overreach of crime; " it received the Michael J. Hindelang Award from the American Society of Criminology, a Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association, and was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title. As of 2022, Simon has published over 90 academic articles. 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 re

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