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Violence work : state power and the limits of police / Micol Seigel.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Durham : London ; Duke University Press, [2018]Description: xi, 300 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781478000020
  • 9781478000174
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Violence workLOC classification:
  • HV8141
Contents:
Introduction: policing and state power -- The Office of Public Safety, the LEAA, and US police -- Civilian or military? distinction by design -- "Industrial security" in Alaska: the great public-private divide -- Corporate states and government markets for Saudi Arabian oil -- Professors for police: the growth of criminal justice education -- Exiles at home: a refugee structure of feeling -- Conclusion: reckoning with police lethality--Appendix--Abbreviations--Notes--Bibliography--Index.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: policing and state power -- The Office of Public Safety, the LEAA, and US police -- Civilian or military? distinction by design -- "Industrial security" in Alaska: the great public-private divide -- Corporate states and government markets for Saudi Arabian oil -- Professors for police: the growth of criminal justice education -- Exiles at home: a refugee structure of feeling -- Conclusion: reckoning with police lethality--Appendix--Abbreviations--Notes--Bibliography--Index.

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