Lesley J. Wood 
Crisis and Control [EPUB ebook] 
The Militarization of Protest Policing

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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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Acknowledgements
List of Acronyms
1. Introduction
2. Policing Waves of Protest 1995–2013
3. To Serve and Protect Who? Policing Trends and Best Practices
4. Local Legitimacy and Struggles for Control
5. Officers Under Attack: The Thin Blue Line, Pepper Spray and Police Identity
6. Experts, Agencies, the Private Security Sector and Integration
7. Protest as Threat
8. Urine-Filled Supersoakers
9. Crisis and Control
Notes
References
Index

Circa l’autore

Lesley Wood is Associate Professor of Sociology at York University in Toronto, Canada. She is the author of Crisis and Control (Pluto, 2014), Direct Action, Deliberation and Diffusion (2012) and co-author of the third edition of Social Movements 1768-2012 (Pluto, 2012). She is an activist in the global justice and anti-poverty movements.

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Lingua Inglese ● Formato EPUB ● Pagine 216 ● ISBN 9781783712106 ● Dimensione 0.7 MB ● Casa editrice Pluto Press ● Città London ● Paese GB ● Pubblicato 2014 ● Edizione 1 ● Scaricabile 24 mesi ● Moneta EUR ● ID 3179034 ● Protezione dalla copia Adobe DRM
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