Pandemic Police Power, Public Health and the Abolition Question

Tryon P. Woods (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XIII, 277 Seiten

2023 | 1st ed. 2022
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-93033-2 (ISBN)

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This book critically explores how police power manifested beyond criminal law into the field of public health during the pandemic. Whilst people were engaged with anti-police violence protests, particularly in the US, they were being policed openly and notoriously by the government and medical science in the public health arena. The book explores how public health policing might be an abuse of constitutional power and encourages the abolition question to be applied consistently to the state's discourse in the area of public health, as black people the world over continue to bear a disproportionate cost burden for public health policies. The chapters explore contemporary policing in terms of the historical context of slavery, the growth of the police and prison abolition movement and how this should be applied more widely, and how police power operates throughout society beyond the criminal justice system, in finance, technology, housing, education, and inmedicine and health science. It seeks to re-examine our relationship to health sovereignty and the police power more fundamentally. It provides insights into the convergence of policing and social control of humans and argues that the most normative response is abolition.

Tryon P. Woods is Associate Professor of Crime and Justice Studies at the University of Massachusetts, USA, and Special Lecturer in Black Studies at Providence College, USA. Dr. Woods has worked with community-based organizations in New York City, Seattle, and Oakland on HIV/AIDS prevention, supportive housing for drug users, and police accountability. He is the author of Blackhood Against the Police Power: Punishment and Disavowal in the “Post-Racial” Era (Michigan State 2019); co-author of the forthcoming Ex Aqua in the Mediterranean: Excavating Black Power in the Migrant Question (Manchester UP); and co-editor of Conceptual Aphasia in Black: Displacing Racial Formation (Lexington 2016) and On Marronage: Ethical Confrontations with Antiblackness (Africa World Press, 2015).

Chapter 1: - Reconceptualizing How Policing Works.- Chapter 2: - Reform, Violence, Capital, and Prison Abolition.- Chapter 3: -The Police Power of Finance, Technology, Housing, and Education.- Chapter 4: -Evaluating COVID-19 Testing, Infection, Mortality, Treatment, and Vaccines.- Chapter 5: -Efficacy, Eugenics, and Law in the Modern Vaccine Regime.- Chapter 6: -Black Life-Matters, Medical Racism, and Health Self-Determination.

Erscheinungsdatum	23.02.2023
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Studies in Race, Ethnicity, Indigeneity and Criminal Justice
Zusatzinfo	XIII, 277 p. 1 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	383 g
Themenwelt	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
Schlagworte	abolitionism • Antiblackness • Black lives matter • Covid-19 • Criminal Justice Reform • dismantling criminal justice • Law enforcement • prison abolition • prison industrial complex • Public Health • race and public health • race and punishment • Social Justice • State Power • vaccines • Violence
ISBN-10	3-030-93033-5 / 3030930335
ISBN-13	978-3-030-93033-2 / 9783030930332
Zustand	Neuware