Title Threat perceptions : the policing of dangers from eugenics to the war on terrorism / Saran Ghatak.

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Description	1 online resource (vii, 131 pages).
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Issues in crime and justice
	Issues in crime & justice (Lanham, Md.)
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 109-125) and index.
Contents	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.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	Crime prevention -- United States -- History.
	Crime prevention.
	United States.
	History.
	Threat (Psychology) -- History.
	Threat (Psychology)
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Ghatak, Saran, 1973- Threat perceptions. Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, 2011 9780739129579 (DLC) 2010032092 (OCoLC)696332725
ISBN	9780739151105 (electronic book)
	073915110X (electronic book)
	9780739129579
	0739129570