Police Abuse in Contemporary Democracies

Michelle D. Bonner is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Victoria, Canada. Guillermina Seri is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Union College, USA.Mary Rose Kubal is Associate Professor of Political Science at St. Bonaventure University, USA. Michael Kempa is Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa, Canada.

• 1. Introduction: Police Abuse in Contemporary Democracies.- 2. Police Abuse and the Racialized Boundaries of Citizenship in France.- 3. Police as State: Governing Citizenship through Violence.- 4. Development of the Concept of “Political Profiling”: Citizenship and Police Repression of Protest in Quebec.- 5. Holding Police Abuse to Account: The Challenge of Institutional Legitimacy, a Chilean Case Study.- 6. Police Abuse and Democratic Accountability: Agonistic Surveillance of the Administrative State.- 7. Protest and Police Abuse: Racial Limits on Perceived Accountability.- 8. Supporting the “Elite” Transition in South Africa: Police Abuse in a Violent Neoliberal Democracy.- 9. Policing as Pacification: Postcolonial Legacies, Transnational Connections, and the Militarization of Urban Security in Democratic Brazil.- 10. Conclusion: Rethinking Police Abuse in Contemporary Democracies.