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Il Governo della Paura

By Jonathan Simor

Yes the rumors are true, Governing through Crime, will shortly be out in an Italian edition, translated by the brilliant Alessandro di Giorgi (hopefully some of it rubbed off on my prose) Professor of Justice Studies at San Jose State University. As if to celebrate, the new Italian government headed by Silvio Berlusconi, has launched a crackdown on "illegal immigrants" who are popularly blamed for much crime in Italy today. Sweeping through shanty towns police arrested hundreds of immigrants, most of whom were swiftly deported with little or no legal process. (See Elizabeth Blumenthal's reporting in the NYTimes). As di Giorgi argues in his important book on the logics of contemporary penal repression, Political Economy of Punishment: Perspectives on post-Fordism and Penal Politics (Ashgate, 2006), immigrants, especially non-western immigrants, stand at the core of the fear based efforts to recast governance in Europe...continue to full post

Full post as published by Governing Through Crime on May 16, 2008 (boomark / email).