Posted this morning at Electric Politics, an interview with Dr. Jonathan Simon of Berkeley's School of Law. Jonathan's book is titled Governing Through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear (2007, Oxford University Press). The book, incidentally, won the 2008 ASA Sociology of Law Distinguished Book Award, which is given out every two years.
If you're concerned about things like rates of incarceration and the death penalty, Jonathan's larger vision puts those and other criminal justice issues into an intelligible, unusually insightful perspective. If you like the podcast please feel free to forward the link. http://www.electricpolitics.com/podcast/2010/08/an_american_criminologist.html -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
