Mike King

When Riot Cops Are Not Enough

The Policing and Repression of Occupy Oakland

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In When Riot Cops Are Not Enough, sociologist Mike King examines the policing, and broader political repression, of the Occupy Oakland movement. King’s active and daily participation in that movement provides a unique insider perspective to illustrate how the Oakland police and city administrators lost the ability to effectively control the movement.    

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 139mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 313g
• ISBN-13: 9780813583730
• ISBN-10: 081358373X
• Artikelnr.: 45803656

Autorenporträt

MIKE KING is an assistant professor of criminal justice at Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts.  

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
1 The Commune by the Bay: The Origins of Occupy Oakland
2 From Permits to Storm Troopers: Repression, Social Control, and the
Governmentality of Protest
3 The Oakland Commune, Police Violence, and Political Opportunity
4 Legitimation Repression through Depoliticizing It: Federal Coordination,
“Health and Safety,” and the November 2011 Occupy Evictions
5 Putting the Occupy Oakland Vigil to Sleep: Anti-Gang Techniques and the
Oakland Police Department’s State of Exception
6 The Meshing of Force and Legitimacy in the Repression of Occupy Oakland’s
Move-In Day
7 Poison in the Garden: A Spring of Seeds That Never Grew¿
8 Beyond Control: Fostering Legitimate Counter-Conduct
 
Notes
References
Index