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Violence work : state power and the limits of police / Micol Seigel.
LIBRA HV8141 .S386 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Seigel, Micol, 1968- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Agency for International Development. Office of Public Safety.
- United States.
- United States. Agency for International Development.
- Police brutality--United States.
- Police brutality.
- State-sponsored terrorism.
- Police training--United States.
- Police training.
- State-sponsored terrorism--United States.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 300 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- Offers a theorization of the quintessential incarnation of state power: the police. Foregrounding the interdependence of policing, the state, and global capital, the author redefines policing as "violence work," showing how it is shaped by its role of channeling state violence. The author traces this dynamic by examining the formation, demise, and aftermath of the U.S. State Department's Office of Public Safety (OPS), which between 1962 and 1974 specialized in training police forces internationally. Officially a civilian agency, the OPS grew and operated in military and counterinsurgency realms in ways that transgressed the borders that are meant to contain the police within civilian, public, and local spheres. Tracing the career paths of OPS agents after their agency closed, the author shows how police practices writ large are rooted in violence - especially against people of color, the poor, and working people - and how understanding police as a civilian, public, and local institution legitimizes state violence while preserving the myth of state benevolence.
- Contents:
- Introduction: policing and state power
- The Office of Public Safety, the LEAA, and US police
- Civilian or military? distinction by design
- "Industrial security" in Alaska: the great public-private divide
- Corporate states and government markets for Saudi Arabian oil
- Professors for police: the growth of criminal justice education
- Exiles at home: a refugee structure of feeling
- Conclusion: reckoning with police lethality.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Seigel, Micol, 1968- Violence work.
- ISBN:
- 9781478000020
- 1478000023
- 9781478000174
- 1478000171
- OCLC:
- 1003727270
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