Pandemic Police Power, Public Health and the Abolition Question

Tryon P. Woods is Associate Professor of Crime and Justice Studies at the University of Massachusetts, USA, and Special Lecturer in Black Studies at Providence College, USA. Dr. Woods has worked with community-based organizations in New York City, Seattle, and Oakland on HIV/AIDS prevention, supportive housing for drug users, and police accountability. He is the author of Blackhood Against the Police Power: Punishment and Disavowal in the “Post-Racial” Era (Michigan State 2019); co-author of the forthcoming Ex Aqua in the Mediterranean: Excavating Black Power in the Migrant Question (Manchester UP); and co-editor of Conceptual Aphasia in Black: Displacing Racial Formation (Lexington 2016) and On Marronage: Ethical Confrontations with Antiblackness (Africa World Press, 2015).

• Chapter 1: - Reconceptualizing How Policing Works.- Chapter 2: - Reform, Violence, Capital, and Prison Abolition.- Chapter 3: -The Police Power of Finance, Technology, Housing, and Education.- Chapter 4: -Evaluating COVID-19 Testing, Infection, Mortality, Treatment, and Vaccines.- Chapter 5: -Efficacy, Eugenics, and Law in the Modern Vaccine Regime.- Chapter 6: -Black Life-Matters, Medical Racism, and Health Self-Determination.