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LEARNING TO LIVE WITH CRIME IBD

CHRISTOPHER P WILSON / CHRISTOPHER PWILSO
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY PRES
10 / 2020
9780814257647
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Since the mid-1960s, the war on crime has reshaped public attitudes about state authority, criminal behavior, and the responsibilities of citizenship. But how have American writers grappled with these changes?áWhat happens when a journalist approaches the workings of organized crime not through its legendary Godfathers but through a workaday, low-level figure who informs on his mob? Why is it that interrogation scenes have become so central to prime-time police dramas of late? What is behind writersâÇÖ recent fascination with 'cold case' homicides, with private security, or with prisons? 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 criminalsâÇÖ knowledge through informants and intelligence gathering. At its most scandalous, this study suggests, contemporary law enforcement has even come to mimic crimeâÇÖs own operations. á á

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