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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Main Author: Wood, Lesley J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Toronto : New York : Pluto Press ; Between the Lines ; Distributed by Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9781783712090
1783712090
9781771131636
1771131632
9781783712106
1783712104
9781771131629
1771131624
9781783712113
1783712112
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 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.