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The end of policing

Summary: "The problem is not police training, police diversity, or police methods. The problem is the dramatic and unprecedented expansion and intensity of policing in the last forty years, a fundamental shift in the role of police in society. The problem is policing itself"--Cover.

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ISBN: 9781784782894
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Physical Description: print
266 pages ; 22 cm
Publisher: London ; Brooklyn, NY : Verso, 2017.
Copyright: ©2017

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	The limits of police reform -- The police are not here to protect you -- The school-to-prison pipeline -- "We called for help, and they killed my son" -- Criminalizing homelessness -- The failures of policing sex work -- The war on drugs -- Gang suppression -- Border policing -- Political policing -- Conclusion.

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Subject:

Police United States
Police misconduct United States
POLITICAL SCIENCE Political Freedom & Security Law Enforcement
SOCIAL SCIENCE Discrimination & Race Relations
POLITICAL SCIENCE Public Policy General
Police
Police misconduct
United States

Genre:

Nonfiction.

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