Crisis and control : the militarization of protest policing /

Crisis and Control explains how neoliberal shifts in political and economic systems are transforming the policing of protest, based on a compelling empirical study of police agencies and practices from 1995 until the present. Lesley J. Wood shows that the increasing role of the security and defense...

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Bibliographische Detailangaben
1. Verfasser: Wood, Lesley J.
Format: Licensed eBooks
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: London : Toronto : New York : Pluto Press ; Between the Lines ; Distributed by Palgrave Macmillan 2014.
Online-Zugang:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt183pdpn
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Policing waves of protest, 1995-2013
  • To serve and protect who? policing trends and best practices
  • Local legitimacy and struggles for control
  • Officers under attack : the thin blue line, pepper spray, and police identity
  • Experts, agencies, the private security sector, and integration
  • Protest as threat
  • Urine-filled supersoakers
  • Crisis and control.