Knowledge as Power: Criminal Registration and Community Notification Laws in America (Critical Perspectives on Crime and Law)

Wayne Logan

ISBN 10: 0804761361 / ISBN 13: 9780804761369

Verlag: Stanford University Press, 2009

pp. 312. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 7990292

Inhaltsangabe:

Societies have long sought security by identifying potentially dangerous individuals in their midst. America is surely no exception. Knowledge as Power traces the evolution of a modern technique that has come to enjoy nationwide popularity—criminal registration laws. Registration, which originated in the 1930s as a means of monitoring gangsters, went largely unused for decades before experiencing a dramatic resurgence in the 1990s. Since then it has been complemented by community notification laws which, like the "Wanted" posters of the Frontier West, publicly disclose registrants' identifying information, involving entire communities in the criminal monitoring process.

Knowledge as Power provides the first in-depth history and analysis of criminal registration and community notification laws, examining the potent forces driving their rapid nationwide proliferation in the 1990s through today, as well as exploring how the laws have affected the nation's law, society, and governance. In doing so, the book provides compelling insights into the manifold ways in which registration and notification reflect and influence life in modern America.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Wayne A. Logan is Gary & Sallyn Pajcic Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Florida State University. In addition to being the nation's preeminent legal scholar on registration and community notification laws, he is a prolific author and commentator on a broad array of other criminal justice-related issues.

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Titel: Knowledge as Power: Criminal Registration ...
Verlag: Stanford University Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: New