Ana Muñiz

Police, Power, and the Production of Racial Boundaries

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Based on five years of ethnography, archival research, census data analysis, and interviews, Police, Power, and the Production of Racial Boundaries reveals how the LAPD, city prosecutors, and business owners struggled to control who should be considered "dangerous” and how they should be policed in Los Angeles.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 154
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 236g
• ISBN-13: 9780813569758
• ISBN-10: 0813569753
• Artikelnr.: 41753881

Autorenporträt

ANA MUÑIZ was a Soros Justice Fellow at the Open Society Foundation and Youth Justice Coalition. She is the director of the Dream Resource Center at the UCLA Labor Center, an institute for research, education, and advocacy on undocumented youth immigrant issues in Los Angeles, California.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents 
Acknowledgements 
Chapter 1    Race and Place in Cadillac-Corning 
Chapter 2    A Neighborhood is Born: Housing Development, Racial Change,
and Boundary Building
Chapter 3    Maintaining Racial Boundaries: Criminalization, Neighborhood
Context, and the Origins of Gang Injunctions 
Chapter 4    The Chaos of Upstanding Citizens: Disorderly Community
Partners and Broken Windows Policing 
Chapter 5    “We Don’t Need No Gang Injunction! We Just Out Here Tryin’ to
Function!”
Chapter 6    Conclusion
References 
Notes