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Policing Empires: Militarization, Race, and the Imperial Boomerang in Britain and the Us

Name: Policing Empires: Militarization, Race, and the Imperial Boomerang in Britain and the Us
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780197621660
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Contributors:

Julian Go

Publisher:

Oxford University Press

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Education, Social Science, Law

Book Subcategory:

Sociology, Antitrust

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Release Date:

2023-09-05

ISBN 13:

9780197621660

Weight:

1.25 lbs

Size:

9.21 x 6.15 x 0.88 inches

Pages:

392

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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.

About the Author
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.

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