Crisis and Control: The Militarization of Protest Policing

Crisis and Control: The Militarization of Protest Policing
ISBN-10
1771131624
ISBN-13
9781771131629
Category
Political Science
Pages
216
Language
English
Published
2014-05-20
Publisher
Between the Lines
Author
Lesley J. Wood

Description

Crisis and Control explains how neoliberal shifts in political and economic systems are militarizing the policing of protest. The book offers a way to understand the influence of political processes on police practices and provides an empirical study of militarized protest policing from 1995 until the present. Lesley J. Wood shows how protest policing techniques have become more militarized and more dependent on intelligence gathering over the past fifteen years partly as a result of the neoliberal restructuring political, economic and social processes. On an increasingly integrated and tumultuous globe, new militarized technologies, formations and frameworks are diffusing quickly through policing networks. Crisis and Control uses novel theoretical and methodological approaches and a unique range of empirical data to make an important and radical contribution to a growing field.

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