Front cover -- Special Issue New Perspectives on Crime and Criminal Justice -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Editorial board -- Chapter 1. Zoning out disorder: assessing contemporary practices of urban social control -- Introduction: ''Anywhere but Aurora'' -- Marking space -- Situating urban social control -- New techniques of urban policing: a catalog -- New techniques of urban policing: an assessment -- Justifying the new techniques -- Expanding police authority -- Unintended consequences -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2. Aspects of non-democratic policing: the rise of the NAZI policing system -- Introduction -- Routine and emergency in police studies -- Theorizing policing: dramaturgy -- Democratic policing -- Non-democratic policing -- Changes and the transformation of the german police post-world war I -- Features of the transformation -- Expectations of democratic policing applied to the Nazi police -- Reflections on the present -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 3. Protecting due process in a punitive era: an analysis of changes in providing counsel to the poor -- Introduction -- The evolution of crime policy: the punitive turn -- The evolution of indigent defense policies -- State politics and indigent defense policies: 1975-2005 -- Data, measures, and analysis plan -- Findings -- Discussion and conclusions -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 4. Judicial discretion and the unfinished agenda of American bail reform: lessons from Philadelphia's evidence-based judicial strategy -- Introduction -- Problems with American bail practices -- Challenges for reform -- Judicial reform of bail: the basis for the guidelines strategy -- Implementing judicial guidelines (I): the Philadelphia bail experiment -- Judicial reform neutralized by jail overcrowding.

Judicial guidelines (II): response to jail overcrowding -- Crowding returns with new scrutiny of pretrial release decisionmaking -- Conclusion: lessons to be drawn from judicial reform in Philadelphia -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5. Understanding mass incarceration as a grand social experiment -- Grand social experiments -- Mass incarceration as a grand social experiment -- The contours of the grand social experiment in mass incarceration -- Lessons learned -- What is the future of the punishment imperativequest -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6. Supermax prisons and the trajectory of exception -- Bare life -- Exception -- Indifference -- Choice -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References.