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Policing Empires

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

Julian Go (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

392 Seiten

2023
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-762166-0 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction: A Civil Police?
The Coloniality of Policing
1. The Birth of the Civil Police in London, 1829
2. Cotton Colonialism and the New Police in the US and England, 1830s-1850s
The New Imperialism at Home
3. 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-1910s
Informal Empire and Urban Insurgency
5. Tactical Imperialism in the US, 1950s-1970s
6. Cycles of Policing & Insurgency in Britain, 1960s-1980s
Conclusion: Policing Beyond Empire?
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	24.08.2023
Zusatzinfo	1 b/w line drawing; 3 b/w photographs; 4 tables
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	567 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Wirtschaftsrecht ► Wettbewerbsrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	0-19-762166-X / 019762166X
ISBN-13	978-0-19-762166-0 / 9780197621660
Zustand	Neuware