Police: A Field Guide - Softcover

Correia, David; Wall, Tyler

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1786630141 ISBN 13: 9781786630148

Verlag: Verso Books, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

This book will arm activists on the streets-as well as anyone with an open mind on one of the key issues of our time-with a critical analysis and ultimately a redefinition of the very idea of policing. The book contends that when we talk about police and police reform, we speak the language of police legitimation through the art of euphemism. So state sexual assault become "body-cavity search," and ruthless beatings become "non-compliance deterrence."

A Field Guide to the Police is a study of the indirect and taken-forgranted language of policing, a language we're all forced to speak when we talk about law enforcement. In entries like "Police dog," "Stop and frisk," and "Rough ride," the authors expose the way "copspeak" suppresses the true meaning and history of policing. Like any other field guide, it reveals a world that is hidden in plain view. The book argues that a redefined language of policing might help chart a future free society.

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David Correia is an associate professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of New Mexico. He is the author of Properties of Violence: Law and Land Grant Struggle in Northern New Mexico.

Tyler Wall is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Tennessee.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Verso Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1786630141
• ISBN 13: 9781786630148
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
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