Policing Empires

Militarization, Race, and the Imperial Boomerang in Britain and the US

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

Av Julian Go, The University of Chicago) Go, Julian (Professor of Sociology, Professor of Sociology

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The police response to protests erupting on America's streets in recent years has made the militarization of policing painfully transparent. Yet, properly demilitarizing the police requires a deeper understanding of its historical development, causes, and social logics. Policing Empires offers a postcolonial historical sociology of police militarization in Britain and the United States to aid that effort. Julian Go tracks when, why, and how British and US police departments have adopted military tactics, tools, and technologies for domestic use. Go reveals that police militarization has occurred since the very founding of modern policing in the nineteenth century into the present, and that it is an effect of the "imperial boomerang." Policing Empires thereby unlocks the dirty secret of police militarization: Police have brought imperial practices home to militarize themselves in response to perceived racialized threats from minority and immigrant populations.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2023-12-05
Mått235 x 156 x 25 mm
Vikt680 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor392
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780197621653
UtmärkelserWinner, 2024 Ida B. Wells-Barnett Distinguished Book Award for best book in Crime, Law and Deviance, American Sociological Association Section on Crime, Law and Deviance Co-Winner, Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship (Book) Award for the Political Sociology Section, American Sociological Association Honorable Mention, 2024 Best Book Prize, Global and Transnational Sociology, American Sociological Association Honorable Mention, 2024 Barrington Moore Best Book Prize, Comparative-Historical Sociology Section, American Sociological Association

Tillhör följande kategorier

Bolagsrätt inom Juridik
Kolonialism och imperialism inom Historia och arkeologi
Sociologi inom Samhalle och politik
Europas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion
Etnicitet inom Samhalle och politik

Julian Go is Professor of Sociology and Faculty Affiliate of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture and the Committee on International Relations at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory (Oxford, 2016). He is the winner of Lewis A. Coser Award for Theoretical Agenda Setting in Sociology given by the American Sociological Association and former President of the Social Science History Association.

AcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroduction: A Civil Police?The Coloniality of Policing1. The Birth of the Civil Police in London, 18292. Cotton Colonialism and the New Police in the US and England, 1830s-1850sThe New Imperialism at Home3. Police "Reform" and the Colonial Boomerang in the US, 1890s-1930s 4. "Our Problems...are not so Difficult": Militarization and its Limits in Britain, 1850s-1910sInformal Empire and Urban Insurgency5. Tactical Imperialism in the US, 1950s-1970s6. Cycles of Policing & Insurgency in Britain, 1960s-1980sConclusion: Policing Beyond Empire?BibliographyIndex

“Meticulously researched, deftly argued, and beautifully written-Go unearths the transnational roots and imperial seeds of today's brutal police policies and culture. As we learn, the racist patrol practices, automatic weaponry, and armored vehicles that dominate the streets of Ferguson and London are not a deviation from policing's original ethos, but a perfection of counter-insurgency tactics hatched in colonial Manila and Madras. One of the best books on law enforcement in decades, Go has shifted the way we will think about policing, justice, and resistance for years to come.” Forrest Stuart, author of Down, Out, and Under Arrest