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Book Reviews : The Justice Juggernaut: Fighting Street Crime, Controlling Citizens by Diana R. Gordon. Rutgers University Press, 1990. 272 pp. cloth

Few domestic social problems arouse more passion and political outrage among a large segment of the American voting public than street crime. In fact, almost any politician, of any political persuasion, who tries to be rational on this issue will be accused of being &dquo;soft on crime&dquo; and unlikely to be elected. Law and order politics, first endorsed on a national platform by presidential candidate Barry Goldwater in 1964, embraced by Richard Nixon as the slogan for his 1968 election campaign, and nationalized by both political parties through federal legislation and funding for the next twenty years, surely must have reached its nadir in the symbolic politics of the Willie Horton issue in the 1988 presidential election. This politicization of street crime in the U.S. over the past twenty years, according to Professor Gordon, has narrowed alternative policy approaches. More significantly, this get-tough policy which she so aptly calls the justice juggernaut, has augmented the coercive power of the government. The theoretical base of the phenomenon, she contends, can be found in the neoconservative views expressed by James Q. Wilson in his book, Thinking of Crime, first published in 1975. This justice juggernaut is made up of two tracks: 1) measures like stiffer sentencing policies and narrowing of defendants’ rights which have intensified the traditional activities of capture and confinement in fighting street crime; and 2) the expansion of state coercive power by an increase in observa-