Uniform feelings : scenes from the psychic life of policing / Jessi Lee Jackson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jackson, Jessi Lee, 1979- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Police psychology--United States.

Police psychology.

Police--Mental health--United States.

Police.

Police misconduct--United States--Prevention.

Police misconduct.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (213 pages)

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 2022.

Summary:

Uniform Feelings explores emotions and U.S. policing. Utilizing a mix of clinical case studies, autotheory, and ethnographic research, Jessi Lee Jackson examines the emotional and psychological forces that shape U.S. police power. She begins with her work as a psychotherapist working across the spectrum of relationships to policing, and then turns to interrogate carceral psychology--the involvement of her profession in ongoing state violence. The book then shifts toward trainings, museums, and memorials that illuminate the psychic life of policing, and the possibility for its transformation. Within her investigation of clinical practice, Jackson offers a critique of contemporary police psychology, which constructs police as vulnerable heroes in need of protection and normalizes a celebration of gun culture. She also explores the police claim of premature death for officers alongside the creation of premature death for those targeted by policing. Jackson then turns to police psychology's participation in training and consulting with police departments, highlighting that these efforts do not serve to restrain police power, but to legitimate it. In the final section of the book, Jackson explores fantasies and mourning processes around policing at police memorials and museums, rapidly expanding sites where public feelings and state violence collide.

Contents:

Introduction: Compass

1. Gun: Relationships and Revolvers

2. Statistic: Frameworks of Precarity in Policing

3. Guidebooks: Police Psychology at the Scenes of State Violence

4. Manual: The Nonperformativity of Implicit-Bias Training

5. Museum: Heroic Fantasies at the American Police Hall of Fame

6. Memorial: Blue Mourning at the National Law Enforcement Officer's Memorial

Conclusion: Abolitionist Psychologies

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-200) and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

Other Format:

Print version: Jackson, Jessi Lee Uniform Feelings

ISBN:

9780472129997

0472129996