Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-286) and index.
Contents:
Engaging scholarship: criminal law and the legitimation of penal power -- The rhetoric of criminal law : sloganism and other coping mechanisms -- Law and police as modes of governance -- Penal law and penal police in the dual penal state -- America's internal penal exceptionalism -- Thomas Jefferson's Virginia criminal law bill -- The model penal code and the war on crime.
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