An examination, by a diverse field of experts, of Pickering's mangle theory and its applicability (or lack thereof) beyond the limited cases he presented in the seminal book that introduced this theory.

Police departments and states attorneys offices acrross the country have adopted a policy of mandatory arrest and prosecution in cases of domestic abuse in order to safeguard the victim and impress upon the offender that domestic abuse is a serious crime. Arresting Abuse is based on Guziks ethnographic study in a Midwestern county in which he rode along with police officers, observed the mandatory arrest of alleged offenders, attended proceedings at Criminal Court, and interviewed a range of authorities. Guzik concludes that mandatory arrest and prosecution do not, in fact, lead offenders to...

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With Mexico's War on Crime as the backdrop, Making Things Stick offers an innovative analysis of how surveillance technologies impact governance in the global society. More than just tools to monitor ordinary people, surveillance technologies are imagined by government officials as a way to reform the national state by focusing on the material things--cellular phones, automobiles, human...