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"Argues convincingly that the conditions that produce our exceptionally high levels of crime are not, and cannot be, significantly remedied by the machinery of surveillance, apprehension, and punishment."--New York Times Book Review

"Gordon argues in her timely and interesting book that fear of crime has become a central feature of our nation's symbolic politics. . . . [Her] analysis is broadly historical and theoretical, invoking Foucault and Durkheim and the social construction of crime."--Contemporary Sociology

"A sophisticated analysis of recent government attempts to control street crime."--Library Journal

"Gordon's well-researched and profoundly explicit work raises some vexing ethical, legal, and public policy questions regarding the so-called 'get tough' philosophy in criminal justice practice over the past quarter century. . . . Should be required reading for students of criminal justice and policymakers at all levels."--Choice

"This is an important and timely book. Professor Gordon uncovers the symbolic power and substantive hollowness of today's 'get tough' approaches to crime and charts the disturbing growth of government surveillance."--Congressman Don Edwards

"Gordon ironically makes good use of one of the fruits of all this troubling 'netwidening': detailed, recent, good-quality, and usually national data on crime, offenders, and the activities of various elements of the criminal justice system. She skillfully weaves this data into descriptive portraits of the system in action."--Wesley G. Skogan, Political Science Quarterly

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CHOICE Review

Gordon's well-researched and profoundly explicit work raises some vexing ethical, legal, and public policy questions regarding the so-called "get tough" philosophy in criminal justice practice over the past quarter century. The author describes how, often with public assent, crime control and prevention measures of the late 20th-century state have significantly infringed upon the privacy of American citizens. More than half of the book details new and intrusive surveillance techniques in both institutional and community corrections. Gordon notes that the book "provides a critical analysis of both the get-tough trend and its partner, coercive control by observation." These forms of state coercion, termed "the justice juggernaut," have emerged in recent years as a result of two interrelated phenomena: a basic neoconservative attitude that views street crime as a signal of general moral decline in the US, and a parallel economic policy of retrenchment from a New Deal/Great Society ethos. This book should be required reading for students of criminal justice and policymakers at all levels. Complete notes section, extensive bibliography, and index. -J. C. Watkins Jr., University of Alabama

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Diana R. Gordon is an associate professor of political science at City College, City University of New York, and a past president of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency.