Policing the state : democratic reflections on police power gone awry, in memory of Kathryn Johnston (1914-2006) / Louis A. Ruprecht, Jr. ; with a new afterword on "Policing the state" after Ferguson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ruprecht, Louis A., author.

Contributor:

Lipman Criminology Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Police--United States.

Police.

United States.

Democracy--United States.

Democracy.

Police-community relations--United States.

Police-community relations.

Physical Description:

xviii, 136 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, [2015]

Summary:

The Manner in Which Kathryn Johnston Died so tragically at the hands of Atlanta narcotics police on the evening of November 21, 2006, anticipates and informs a number of very contemporary - and extremely volatile-issues that have become closely associated with the name of Ferguson, Missouri. As the "Black Lives Matter" movement makes clear, the issues center primarily around the relationship between racial identity and lethal police violence in the United States today. In this Second Edition of Policing the State, Louis A. Ruprecht Jr. attempts to situate both "Ferguson" and "Black Lives Matter" within a relatively narrow historical frame of the two years since Policing the State was first published, as well as a longer history of the emergence of a more violent policing regime and an ever-more intensely carceral society that came on the scene quite suddenly in the United States in the mid-to-late 1980s. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction 1

2 Jury Selection 18

3 The First Day 24

4 Policing by the Numbers, or, "Nine and Two" 28

5 The "War on Drugs" 36

6 New Technologies and the New Policing 44

7 "We're All in This Together" 48

8 Breaking the Case 64

9 The Human Cost 72

10 Defending the Indefensible 77

11 Deliberation and Judgment 82.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-136).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lipman Criminology Library Fund.

ISBN:

1498231101

9781498231107

OCLC:

928482200

Publisher Number:

99966442681