Police - A Field Guide

This book will arm activists on the streets-as well as anyone with an open mind on one of the key issues of our time-with a critical analysis and ultimately a redefinition of the very idea of policing. The book contends that when we talk about police and police reform, we speak the language of police legitimation through the art of euphemism. So state sexual assault become "body-cavity search," and ruthless beatings become "non-compliance deterrence."

A Field Guide to the Police is a study of the indirect and taken-forgranted language of policing, a language we're all forced to speak when we talk about law enforcement. In entries like "Police dog," "Stop and frisk," and "Rough ride," the authors expose the way "copspeak" suppresses the true meaning and history of policing. Like any other field guide, it reveals a world that is hidden in plain view. The book argues that a redefined language of policing might help chart a future free society.

About the author

Tyler Wall is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.David Correia is an associate professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of New Mexico. He is the author of Properties of Violence: Law and Land Grant Struggle in Northern New Mexico.

Summary

Radical glossary of the vocabulary of policing that redefines the very way we understand law enforcement

Product details

• Authors: David Correia, David Wall Correia, Correia David, Tyler Wall
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.09.2017
• EAN: 9781786630148
• ISBN: 978-1-78663-014-8
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 125 mm x 210 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Ethnic Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Corruption & Misconduct, Political activism, Police & security services, Political oppression & persecution, Political oppression and persecution, Police and security services, Political activism / Political engagement