Micol Seigel

Violence Work

State Power and the Limits of Police

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Produktbeschreibung

Micol Seigel is Professor of American Studies and History at Indiana University,¿Bloomington¿and the author of Uneven Encounters: Making Race and Nation in Brazil and the United States, also published by Duke University Press.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9781478000020
• ISBN-10: 1478000023
• Artikelnr.: 49343447

Autorenporträt

Micol Seigel is Professor of American Studies and History at Indiana University, Bloomington and the author of Uneven Encounters: Making Race and Nation in Brazil and the United States, also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction. Policing and State Power  1
1. The Office of Public Safety, the LEAA, and US Police  25
2. Civilian or Military? Distinction by Design  52
3. "Industrial Security" in Alaska: The Great Public-Private Divide  73
4. Corporate States and Government Markets for Saudi Arabian Oil  99
5. Professors for Police: The Growth of Criminal Justice Education  121
6. Exiles at Home: A Refugee Structure of Feeling  146
Conclusion. Reckoning with Police Lethality  179
Appendix  189
Abbreviations  191
Notes  193
Bibliography  249
Index  293