Violence work : state power and the limits of police /

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In Violence Work Micol Seigel offers a new theorization of the quintessential incarnation of state power: the police. Foregrounding the interdependence of policing, the state, and global capital, Seigel redefines policing as "violence work," showing how it is shaped by its role of channeli...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Seigel, Micol, 1968- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
Subjects:
United States. > Agency for International Development. > Office of Public Safety.
Police brutality > United States.
Police training > United States.
State-sponsored terrorism > United States.
Brutalités policières > États-Unis.
Policiers > Formation > États-Unis.
Terrorisme d'État > États-Unis.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
Police brutality
Police training
State-sponsored terrorism
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: policing and state power
  • The Office of Public Safety, the LEAA, and US police
  • Civilian or military? Distinction by design
  • "Industrial security" in Alaska: the great public-private divide
  • Corporate states and government markets for Saudi Arabian oil
  • Professors for police: the growth of criminal justice education
  • Exiles at home: a refugee structure of feeling
  • Conclusion: reckoning with police lethality.

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