Police Abuse in Contemporary Democracies

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bonner, Michelle D. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Seri, Guillermina (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Kubal, Mary Rose (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Kempa, Michael (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Democracy.; Police.; Citizenship.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Peace.; Policing.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.; Conflict Studies.

This volume offers a much-needed analysis of police abuse and its implications for our understanding of democracy. Sometimes referred to as police violence or police repression, police abuse occurs in all democracies. It is not an exception or a stage of democratization. It is, this volume argues, a...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Police Abuse in Contemporary Democracies
• 2. Police Abuse and the Racialized Boundaries of Citizenship in France
• 3. Police as State: Governing Citizenship through Violence
• 4. Development of the Concept of "Political Profiling": Citizenship and Police Repression of Protest in Quebec
• 5. Holding Police Abuse to Account: The Challenge of Institutional Legitimacy, a Chilean Case Study
• 6. Police Abuse and Democratic Accountability: Agonistic Surveillance of the Administrative State
• 7. Protest and Police Abuse: Racial Limits on Perceived Accountability
• 8. Supporting the "Elite" Transition in South Africa: Police Abuse in a Violent Neoliberal Democracy
• 9. Policing as Pacification: Postcolonial Legacies, Transnational Connections, and the Militarization of Urban Security in Democratic Brazil
• 10. Conclusion: Rethinking Police Abuse in Contemporary Democracies.