Violence Work

State Power and the Limits of Police

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

AvMicol Seigel

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In Violence Work Micol Seigel offers a new theorization of the quintessential incarnation of state power: the police. Foregrounding the interdependence of policing, the state, and global capital, Seigel redefines policing as “violence work,” showing how it is shaped by its role of channeling state violence. She traces this dynamic by examining the formation, demise, and aftermath of the U.S. State Department's Office of Public Safety (OPS), which between 1962 and 1974 specialized in training police forces internationally. Officially a civilian agency, the OPS grew and operated in military and counterinsurgency realms in ways that transgressed the borders that are meant to contain the police within civilian, public, and local spheres. Tracing the career paths of OPS agents after their agency closed, Seigel shows how police practices writ large are rooted in violence-especially against people of color, the poor, and working people-and how understanding police as a civilian, public, and local institution legitimizes state violence while preserving the myth of state benevolence.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-08-27
Mått152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor277
FörlagDuke University Press
ISBN9781478000174

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Acknowledgments viiIntroduction. Policing and State Power 11. The Office of Public Safety, the LEAA, and US Police 252. Civilian or Military? Distinction by Design 523. "Industrial Security" in Alaska: The Great Public-Private Divide 734. Corporate States and Government Markets for Saudi Arabian Oil 995. Professors for Police: The Growth of Criminal Justice Education 1216. Exiles at Home: A Refugee Structure of Feeling 146Conclusion. Reckoning with Police Lethality 179Appendix 189Abbreviations 191Notes 193Bibliography 249Index 293

"An exceptionally sophisticated exploration of the nature of policing in relation to 'violence work.' . . . Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, and faculty."- D. O. Friedrichs (Choice) "[Violence Work] reveals a great deal about what we do and do not know about state-sponsored violence as well as how best to get there. . . . Seigel portrays state repression in a relatively new light, leading to refreshing insights about theory, data sources, and unexamined hypotheses. The book kills fascists because if you follow the logic contained within it, you are led directly to perpetrators of violence, as well as the varying types of institutions in which they are found." - Christian Davenport (Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics) “Violence Work is an eye-opening, detailed and timely book that, for its historical approach, is an unusual appraisal of police legitimacy, which may not only to attract the attention of scholars and students of political science and criminal justice but also of policymakers, especially in this time of discussion of dismantling and defunding the police.”- Nusret M. Sahin (Ethnic and Racial Studies)