Violence work : state power and the limits of police / Micol Seigel.

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Offers a theorization of the quintessential incarnation of state power: the police. Foregrounding the interdependence of policing, the state, and global capital, the author redefines policing as "violence work," showing how it is shaped by its role of channeling state violence. The author traces thi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Seigel, Micol, 1968- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
Subjects:
United States. > Agency for International Development. > Office of Public Safety.
Police brutality > United States.
Police training > United States.
State-sponsored terrorism > United States.
Police brutality.
Police training.
State-sponsored terrorism.
United States.
Physical Description:xi, 300 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book

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