Your Call 100108 Governing through Crime

What would a progressive response to crime look like? On the next Your Call, we'll speak with Jonathan Simon, associate dean at Berkeley's School of Law and author of Governing through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear. After the New Deal coalition fell apart in the 60s, Simon argues that civil rights and economic equality advances were reversed by a national obsession with personal safety. How is that playing out today? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy.

Guest: Jonathan Simon, associate dean at Berkeley's School of Law and author of Governing through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear

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Your Call 042308 McMafia

How do the international black market and national governments collude and cooperate in the black market? On the next Your Call we speak with journalist Misha Glenny, author of McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld. Glenny was correspondent in South-eastern Europe and chronicled the rise of the criminal gangs that prospered during the post-Soviet chaos. The World Trade Organization now estimates that 20 percent of global trade is now controlled by criminal enterprises. Where does the line between illegal arms and drug dealing cross into official state policy? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guest:
Misha Glenny in San Francisco
Author of McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld.

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