The Justice Juggernaut: Fighting Street Crime, Controlling Citizens
(Part of the Crime, Law & Deviance Series)
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"Argues convincingly that the conditions that produce our exceptionally high levels of crime are not, and cannot be, significantly remedied by the machinery of surveillance, apprehension, and punishment."--New York Times Book Review "Gordon argues in her timely and interesting book that fear of crime has become a central feature of our nation's symbolic politics. . . . [Her] analysis is broadly historical and theoretical, invoking Foucault and Durkheim...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0813514770
ISBN13:9780813514772
Release Date:February 1990
Publisher:Rutgers University Press
Length:348 Pages
Weight:1.45 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"
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