The Justice Juggernaut: Fighting Street Crime, Controlling Citizens

by Diana R. Gordon

Book Overview

"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"