Policing Protest: The Post-Democratic State and the Figure of Black Insurrection

by Paul A. Passavant

Book Overview

In Policing Protest Paul A. Passavant explores how the policing of protest in the United States has become increasingly hostile since the late 1990s, moving away from strategies that protect protesters toward militaristic practices designed to suppress protests. He identifies reactions to three interrelated crises that converged to institutionalize this new mode of policing: the political mobilization of marginalized social groups in the Civil...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478011432
• ISBN13: 9781478011439
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"