the policing of dangers from eugenics to the war on terrorism /
Saran Ghatak
Lanham, Md. :
Lexington Books,
2011
vii, 131 p. ;
24 cm
Issues in crime and justice
Includes bibliographical references (p. 109-125) and index
Science and criminal danger in the nineteenth century -- Eugenics and hereditarianism in the United States -- Origin of the psychopathology of crime -- The advent of actuarial justice -- Policing of political dissent -- "Risk wars" : the campaign against terrorism