Book review: Governing through crime,Jonathan Simon. Oxford University Press,2007. 344 pp. $29.95 (hbk). ISBN 13: 9780195181081

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Garland, David (2001) The culture of control: Crime and social order in contemporary society. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Melossi, Dario (2008) Controlling crime, controlling society: Thinking about crime in Europe and America. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press.

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Simon, Jonathan (2007) Governing through crime: How the war on crime transformed American democracy and created a culture of fear. Oxford : Oxford University Press. (Italian translation by Alessandro De Giorgi, Il governo della paura: Guerra alla criminalità e democrazia in America. Milan: Raffaello Cortina Editore, 2008.)