Threat Perceptions: The Policing of Dangers from Eugenics to the War on Terrorism by Ghatak, Saran

Threat Perceptions: The Policing of Dangers from Eugenics to the War on Terrorism (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780739129579)

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Threat Perceptions: The Policing of Dangers from Eugenics to the War on Terrorism by Ghatak, Saran

Threat Perceptions: The Policing of Dangers from Eugenics to the War on Terrorism

$113.00
Threat Perceptions: The Policing of Dangers from Eugenics to the War on Terrorism by Ghatak, Saran

Threat Perceptions: The Policing of Dangers from Eugenics to the War on Terrorism

$113.00
Format: Hardcover
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Threat Perceptions: The Policing of Dangers from Eugenics to the War on Terrorism examines the legal, scientific, and social construction of risk of crime in the United States. Ghatak focuses on the crime control policies that stretched from the beginning of the era of Eugenics and the rise of criminal psychiatry in the late 19th century to the contemporary era of "actuarial justice" and the Patriot Act.


Author: Saran Ghatak
ISBN-10: 0739129570
ISBN-13: 9780739129579
Publisher: Lexington Books
Language: English
Published: 12/13/2010
Pages: 140
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.70d
By Saran Ghatak
By Saran Ghatak
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Saran Ghatak is assistant professor of sociology at Keene State College

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