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Book Title
Violence Work : State Power and the Limits of Police
ISBN
9781478000174

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Duke University Press
ISBN-10
1478000171
ISBN-13
9781478000174
eBay Product ID (ePID)
242500840

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
312 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Violence Work : State Power and the Limits of Police
Publication Year
2018
Subject
United States / 20th Century, Terrorism, Sociology / General, Development / General, Law Enforcement, Criminology
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Political Science, Social Science, Business & Economics, History
Author
Micol Seigel
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
16 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2018-002260
Reviews
"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, 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., [ 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., An exceptionally sophisticated exploration of the nature of policing in relation to 'violence work.' . . . Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, and faculty., To follow the richly detailed, archivally researched story of Micol Seigel's Violence Work is to access a nuanced and convincing conceptualization of policing as a strategic socialization of the imminent and permanent threat of police violence. Reading Violence Work is a sustained exercise in demystification: any notion that policing is remotely separable from military power is thoroughly disrupted. Seigel's tremendously impactful book will reshape academic and public conversations and will serve as a pillar in the ongoing work of critical carceral studies, critical ethnic studies, and American studies.
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
363.20973
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments vii Introduction. Policing and State Power 1 1. The Office of Public Safety, the LEAA, and US Police 25 2. Civilian or Military? Distinction by Design 52 3. "Industrial Security" in Alaska: The Great Public-Private Divide 73 4. Corporate States and Government Markets for Saudi Arabian Oil 99 5. Professors for Police: The Growth of Criminal Justice Education 121 6. Exiles at Home: A Refugee Structure of Feeling 146 Conclusion. Reckoning with Police Lethality 179 Appendix 189 Abbreviations 191 Notes 193 Bibliography 249 Index 293
Synopsis
Micol Seigel redefines policing as "violence work," showing how it is shaped by its role of channeling state violence and how its status as a civilian institution obscures its ties to militarization., 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.
LC Classification Number
HV8141

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