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Luis A. Fernandez - Policing Dissent - 9780813542157 - V9780813542157
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Policing Dissent

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Description for Policing Dissent paperback. Provides a firsthand account of the changing nature of control efforts employed by local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies when confronted with mass activism. Based on ethnographic research, and using an incisive theoretical framework, this title maps the use of legal, physical, and psychological approaches. Series Editor(s): Michalowski, Raymond J. Series: Critical Issues in Crime and Society. Num Pages: 224 pages, 9 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: JKSW1; JKV; JPWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 249.

In November 1999, fifty-thousand anti-globalization activists converged on Seattle to shut down the World Trade Organization’s Ministerial Meeting. Using innovative and network-based strategies, the protesters left police flummoxed, desperately searching for ways to control the emerging anti-corporate globalization movement.  Faced with these network-based tactics, law enforcement agencies transformed their policing and social control mechanisms to manage this new threat.

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In November 1999, fifty-thousand anti-globalization activists converged on Seattle to shut down the World Trade Organization’s Ministerial Meeting. Using innovative and network-based strategies, the protesters left police flummoxed, desperately searching for ways to control the emerging anti-corporate globalization movement.  Faced with these network-based tactics, law enforcement agencies transformed their policing and social control mechanisms to manage this new threat.

Policing Dissent provides a firsthand account of the changing nature of control efforts employed by law enforcement agencies when confronted with mass activism. The book also offers readers the richness of experiential detail and engaging stories often lacking in studies of police practices and social movements. This book does not merely seek to explain the causal relationship between repression and mobilization. Rather, it shows how social control strategies act on the mind and body of protesters.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
Critical Issues in Crime and Society
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813542157
SKU
V9780813542157
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About Luis A. Fernandez
Luiz Fernandez Jr. is an assistant professor at Northern Arizona University.

Reviews for Policing Dissent
"Policing Dissent is one of the best books I've come across in any field that examines the intersections of globalization, dissent, and late-modern social control."
Peter Kraska
Senior Research Fellow, and author of Militarizing the American Criminal Justice
"Luis Fernandez's Policing Dissent is a fascinating and courageous book—a book where the crackling energy of...
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"Policing Dissent is one of the best books I've come across in any field that examines the intersections of globalization, dissent, and late-modern social control."
Peter Kraska
Senior Research Fellow, and author of Militarizing the American Criminal Justice
"Luis Fernandez's Policing Dissent is a fascinating and courageous book—a book where the crackling energy of contemporary street protest animates a careful analysis of late modern social control."
Jeff Ferrell
author of Tearing Down the Streets: Adventures in Urban Anarchy
"A fascinating look at a vitally important movement for social change—and the obstacles it faces. Important reading for self-reflective artists."
Starhawk
Activist and author of Webs of Power: Notes from the Global Uprising
"This book is frightening, urgent—crucial reading."
Christian Parenti
author of Lockdown America and The Soft Cage
"Fernandez's survey of new protest policing helps us all feel the chill—not just of mass mobilizations but of dissent itself."
Amory Starr
author of Naming the Enemy and Global Revolt
"An important contribution to our understanding of the state's response to unrest that puts the scholarship on protest policing into contact with the repressice reality."
Kristian Williams
author of Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America
"Luis Fernandez's Policing Dissent is a first-hand account of the nature and effect of social control practices utilized by police against the emergent American anti-globalization movement. ... a worthwhile piece of research."
Mobilization
"Policing Dissent is one of the best books I've come across in any field that examines the intersections of globalization, dissent, and late-modern social control."
Peter Kraska
Senior Research Fellow, and author of Militarizing the American Criminal Justice
"Luis Fernandez's Policing Dissent is a fascinating and courageous book—a book where the crackling energy of contemporary street protest animates a careful analysis of late modern social control."
Jeff Ferrell
author of Tearing Down the Streets: Adventures in Urban Anarchy
"A fascinating look at a vitally important movement for social change—and the obstacles it faces. Important reading for self-reflective artists."
Starhawk
Activist and author of Webs of Power: Notes from the Global Uprising
"This book is frightening, urgent—crucial reading."
Christian Parenti
author of Lockdown America and The Soft Cage
"Fernandez's survey of new protest policing helps us all feel the chill—not just of mass mobilizations but of dissent itself."
Amory Starr
author of Naming the Enemy and Global Revolt
"An important contribution to our understanding of the state's response to unrest that puts the scholarship on protest policing into contact with the repressice reality."
Kristian Williams
author of Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America
"Luis Fernandez's Policing Dissent is a first-hand account of the nature and effect of social control practices utilized by police against the emergent American anti-globalization movement. ... a worthwhile piece of research."
Mobilization

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