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

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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Main Author: Seigel, Micol, 1968- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
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Physical Description:xi, 300 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a Introduction: policing and state power -- The Office of Public Safety, the LEAA, and US police -- Civilian or military? distinction by design -- "Industrial security" in Alaska: the great public-private divide -- Corporate states and government markets for Saudi Arabian oil -- Professors for police: the growth of criminal justice education -- Exiles at home: a refugee structure of feeling -- Conclusion: reckoning with police lethality. 
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