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Governing through Crime

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I've been hearing good things about the book Governing through Crime, by Jonathon Simon, and was interested to see this review in Governing Magazine, which actually holds Texas up as a "glimmer of hope" against the trends described in the book, which may sound familiar to regular Grits readers:To be politically effective, elected officials believe they must be tough on crime. Simon writes, "Simply put, to be for the people, legislators must be for the victims and law enforcement, and thus they must never be for (or capable of being portrayed as being for) criminals or prisoners as individuals or as a class."As part of the war on crime, according to Simon, "Americans have built a new civil and political order structured around the problem of violent crime...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on September 11, 2008 (boomark / email).

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