Criminalizing the Casbahs : Policing North Africans in Marseille and Algiers, 1918-1954.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beaujon, Danielle.

Series:

Police/Worlds: Studies in Security, Crime, and Governance Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Racism in law enforcement--France--Marseille--History--20th century.

Racism in law enforcement.

Racism in law enforcement--Algeria--Algiers--History--20th century.

Police brutality--France--Marseille--History--20th century.

Police brutality.

Police brutality--Algeria--Algiers--History--20th century.

North Africans--France--Marseille--Social conditions.

North Africans.

North Africans--Algeria--Algiers--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2025.

Summary:

"Beginning with the surge of North African immigration after World War I and ending with the first battles of the Algerian War of Independence, this book examines how both national policy and local concerns shaped colonial policing. Violence has marked police practice since the earliest iterations of organized policing. Yet if violence was ubiquitous, French police officers' use of violence on the bodies of North Africans developed in relation to both imperial discourses of North Africans' racial inferiority, and individual relationships of power and opposition"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Controlling Mediterranean movement

Locating dangerous Algerians

Policing an empire at war

Mapping the enemy within

A new police for a new republic

Policing politics at the end of empire.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781501781506

1501781502

OCLC:

1481795792