Learning to live with crime
Subtitle: American crime narrative in the neoconservative turn
By: Christopher P. Wilson
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780814211373; 9780814292365
Description: "In Learning to Live with Crime, Christopher P. Wilson examines this war on crime and how it has made its way into cultural representation and public consciousness. Under the sway of neoconservative approaches to criminal justice and public safety, Americans have been urged to see crime as an inevitable risk of modern living and to accept ever more aggressive approaches to policing, private security, and punishment. The idea has been not simply to fight crime but to manage its risks; to inculcate personal vigilance in citizens; and to incorporate criminals' knowledge through informants and intelligence gathering. At its most scandalous, this study suggests, contemporary law enforcement has even come to mimic crime's own operations."--Provided by Publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Getting wise(guys) : the witness protection narrative; title: The box in the box : putting interrogation in prime time; title: The time of the crime : cold case squads and neoconservative social memory; title: Risk management : Frank Abagnale Jr. and the shadowing of pleasure; title: "Doing time" : keepers, brothers, and the prison exposé.