Policing Dissent : Social Control and the Anti-Globalization Movement / Luis Fernandez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fernandez, Luis A., 1969- Author.

Series:

Critical Issues in Crime and Society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law enforcement--United States.

Law enforcement.

Social control--United States.

Social control.

Protest movements--United States.

Protest movements.

Anti-globalization movement--United States.

Anti-globalization movement.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (206 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2008]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In November 1999, fifty-thousand anti-globalization activists converged on Seattle to shut down the World Trade Organization's Ministerial Meeting. Using innovative and network-based strategies, the protesters left police flummoxed, desperately searching for ways to control the emerging anti-corporate globalization movement. Faced with these network-based tactics, law enforcement agencies transformed their policing and social control mechanisms to manage this new threat. Policing Dissent provides a firsthand account of the changing nature of control efforts employed by law enforcement agencies when confronted with mass activism. The book also offers readers the richness of experiential detail and engaging stories often lacking in studies of police practices and social movements. This book does not merely seek to explain the causal relationship between repression and mobilization. Rather, it shows how social control strategies act on the mind and body of protesters.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

1. Protest, Control, and Policing

2. Perspectives on the Control of Dissent

3. The Anti-Globalization Movement

4. Managing and Regulating Protest: Social Control and the Law

5. This Is What Democracy Looks Like?: The Physical Control of Space

6. "Here Come the Anarchists": The Psychological Control of Space

7. Law Enforcement and Control

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

1-281-77650-5

9786611776503

0-8135-4474-2

OCLC:

476183146