Governing through crime : how the war on crime transformed American democracy and created a culture of fear / Jonathan Simon.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-318) and index.

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.