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Policing life and death : race, violence, and resistance in Puerto Rico / Marisol LeBrón.
Van Pelt Library HV8174.A3 L43 2019
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- LeBrón, Marisol, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Discrimination in law enforcement--Puerto Rico--History--20th century.
- Discrimination in law enforcement.
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration--Puerto Rico--History--20th century.
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration.
- Police-community relations--Puerto Rico--History--20th century.
- Police-community relations.
- History.
- Puerto Rico.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 301 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- "Policing Life and Death : Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico examines how policing reinforces social inequality along lines of race, class, gender, and sexuality and analyzes the ways that marginalized populations push against logics and practices of criminalization. Marisol LeBrón traces the rise of punitive governance in Puerto Rico over the course of the twentieth century to the present moment. She argues that Puerto Rican elites and policy makers have turned to policing as a way of reorganizing and strengthening the state in response to deep and ongoing structural crises stemming from the island's incorporation into the United States as a colonial territory. At the same time, LeBrón provides powerful examples of how Puerto Ricans negotiate and resist their subjection to increased levels of segregation, criminalization, discrimination, and violence. Puerto Ricans are actively rejecting punitive solutions and working toward alternative understandings of justice, safety, and accountability"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction : they don't care if we die
- A war against the victims
- Colonial projects
- Underground
- The continued promise of punishment
- Policing solidarity
- #ImperfectVictims
- Security from below
- Postscript : broken windows and future horizons after the storm.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: LeBrón, Marisol, author. Policing life and death
- ISBN:
- 9780520300163
- 0520300165
- 9780520300170
- 0520300173
- OCLC:
- 1052905163
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