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...” between Food Not Bombs activists and police and City officials in order to regulate their public meals of the homeless in order to moderate the group’s politics and remove them from contested public space. Food Not Bombs refused this negotiated management and instead occupied public space and provided...

...Judith Grant Abstract This article argues that the frequency and intensity of police corruption scandals indicate that they are not “corruptions” but are the norm. Police believe that they must break the law in order to enforce it. I connect this to Austin Sarat’s notions about the relationship...

... structures and narratives. © 2015 Caucus for a New Political Science 2015 NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE, 2015 VOL. 37, NO.4, 562-581 httpdx.doLorg/l0.1080/07393148.2015.1089030 The War on Solicitation and Intersectional Subjection: Quality-of-life Policing as a Tool to Control Transgender Populations CourtenayW...

...Abigail Cary Moore Abstract A series of Supreme Court decisions in the past 40 years transformed the legal standard for police use of force, centering officers’ assessments of a suspect’s potential for violence. Using the oral arguments from three landmark SCOTUS cases, I trace the development...

...Craig Curtis James J. Chriss , Beyond Community Policing: From Early American Beginnings to the 21st Century , Boulder, CO , Paradigm , 2013 , 213 pp. © 2014, Craig Curtis 2014 414 Book Reviews Notes on Contributor Professor Anthony is the author of a book on the politics...

... Contemporary Wars Reach into Societies Eva Herschinger Departement of Prevention, Police Presidency, Frankfurt am Main, Germany ABSTRACT Much thinking on war has been inspired by von Clausewitz' famous dictum of "war being merely the continuation of policy by other means." Such a politics/war dialectic...

...Mark Devenney Abstract Interrogating the limits of post-foundational accounts of political economy, this response to Taavi Sundell, proposes three conceptual shifts. First, I argue that the distinction between politics and economics polices a border that absolves economic questions...

...Quinn Lester Abstract Debates about policing and gun violence often break down to conversations about the violence of either “private” white men engaged in vigilantism or “public” police misconduct. I argue, however, that this split misses the way that patriarchal power structures the American...

...Daniel Kato Abstract Mass incarceration is at a crossroads. Even though demands to dismantle mass incarceration are increasingly gaining traction, it will not necessarily lead to a reduction of the carceral state. There is an emerging trend that centers on surveillance, security, and police...

... of neoliberal reason is manifesting as a new mechanism for policing public discourse and space that works to the detriment of racial and ethnic minorities seeking transformative change. © 2019 Caucus for a New Political Science 2019 NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE 2019, VOL. 41, NO.4, 514-528 httpsdoLorg/l 0.1 080...

... regulation of certain types of music, provides opportunities for racial profiling, and may harm the legitimacy of the government thus reducing its ability to use its police power in areas which are more appropriate for the use of that power. * I wish to thank my Research Assistant at Bradley...

... attention to how social constructions of the “good project” shape the discourses around community priorities and winning projects—especially in the areas of security/policing and education. While the New York PB process has successfully reached out to and effectively enfranchised traditionally marginalized...

... power to kill, by both directly killing racially defined groups and through “indirect murder . .. or, quite simply, political death.” 1 I argue that both the US and English criminal justice systems exercise state racism directly and indirectly, including through police shootings and imprisonment...

...Adam Dahl Abstract One of the more striking features of the Black Lives Matter movement against racialized police brutality has been the focus on violence inflicted on “black bodies.” On one hand, the language of “black bodies” as opposed to simply “black people” or “black personhood,” makes...

..., break-ins, and other non-"crimes and misdemeanors." In this article, Noam Chomsky discusses a more basic threat to the Constitution than Watergate found in the pattern of FBI break-ins and illegal actions first revealed to the public in 1973. (Illegal actions by the national police are known to have...

... for the corporate economic order, normative vigilance may be relaxed to allow a greater range of voices to enter the news." A useful subject for studying such parameters is the news coverage of the March 3, 1991, Los Angeles police beating of motorist Rodney King, and of the subsequent trial of four police officers...

... specifically refers to exclusionary discipline and policing practices and policies that push students out of school and into the juvenile criminal justice system. These practices result in high rates of suspensions and expulsions, especially for actions termed "willful defiance," a very subjective category...

... the United States government was met with disastrous results. Calls to the FBI for protection would result in calls from the FBI to local police contacts (card carrying Ku Klux Klansmen), or undercover agents/operatives in the Klan who would subsequently organize a violent episode, e.g. shooting, burning...

... been journalistic or biographic.8 The journalistic texts have primarily relied on police or prosecution records. American newspapers also reported on BLA activities based upon information offered to the media to support police investigations and prosecutions of Black radicals.9 The journalistic...

..., August 4, 2011, when the Metropolitan police unit assigned to combat gun crime in black communities shot and killed Tottenham resident Mark Duggan during an attempt to arrest him while he travelled in a taxi. The first police reports suggested that Duggan exchanged gun fire, hitting one police officer...