Crisis and Control: The Militarization of Protest Policing - Softcover

Wood, Lesley J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0745333885 ISBN 13: 9780745333885

Verlag: Pluto Press, 2014

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A balanced, detailed and convincing look at global policing. This is a necessary and rare account that is vital for anyone interested in protest policing and its increasing militarisation, as well as wider forms of global social control under neoliberalism. (Nina Power, University of Roehampton, co-founder of Defend the Right to Protest)

A welcome contribution to the literature on the sociology of policing more generally. Smart, erudite, and empirically grounded, Wood's perspective on policing protest exposes deeper, often under-explored, theoretical dimensions of the politics of policing. (James Sheptycki, Professor of Criminology, York University)

Crisis and Control sheds light on the economic and political roots of police brutality against legitimate social movements. Unfortunately, this is what our 'democracy' looks like. (Francis Dupuis-Déri, professor of political science, Université du Québec à Montréal, and member of the Observatory on racial, social, and political profiling in the public space.)

Crisis and Control is an engaging and sophisticated study of protest policing, which exposes the threat such policing poses to democracy and the neoliberal dynamics that have made it a preferred strategy for repressing the 99% whenever they challenge the 1%. Highly recommended. (William K. Carroll, professor of sociology, University of Victoria)

Lesley Wood offers a hard-hitting, insightful, and well-researched analysis of the changing forms of protest policing. In unpeeling the layered accounts of the coordinated police and security response to Toronto G20 demonstrations, Wood has found the means to explore many of the most pressing and troubling issues in the emerging nexus of neoliberalism and public order. This is an important contribution to the institutional sociology of policing. (Willem de Lint, professor of criminal justice, Flinders University)

Lesley Wood's Crisis and Control shows clearly that the police wing of the state takes very seriously its task of understanding and defeating social resistance to austerity. Those engaged in that resistance would do well to return the favour. This book provides an excellent source of knowledge and insight into how the not-so-thin blue line thinks and operates. (John Clarke, Organizer, Ontario Coalition Against Poverty)

A must-read for all who care about freedom of speech and see protest and public demonstration as a necessary and legitimate means of protecting democracy and bringing about social justice by influencing public opinion and government policy. With both from an academic and hands-on approach, Wood captures the impact of globalization and the use of warrior police forces by governments and big business.” - (Howard F Morton. QC., Barrister)

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Crisis and Control explains how neoliberal transformations of political and economic systems are militarising 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 industries, professional police associations, anti-terrorism initiatives and ‘best practices’ in policing networks have accelerated the use of less lethal weapons, pre-emptive arrests, infiltration and barricading strategies against protesters.

The book uses Bourdieu and Boltanski to analyse court transcripts, police reports, policy, training materials and the conference programs of professional police organisations to argue that police agencies are neither omnipotent strategists, nor simple tools of the elite, but institutions struggling to maintain legitimacy, resources and autonomy in a changing field.

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• Verlag: Pluto Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0745333885
• ISBN 13: 9780745333885
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 216