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THEMED SECTION: PERSPECTIVES FROM NORTH AMERICA

American nightmare: how forty years of governing through crime have reshaped American democracy

Jonathan Simon links the war on crime to the war on terror and considers if President Obama will chart a new course

Pages 16-18 | Published online: 07 Apr 2011

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