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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 structural and conceptual dimension of extant democracies. The book draws our attention to how including the study of policing into our analyses strengthens our understanding of democracy, including the persistence of hybrid democracy and the decline of democracy. To this end, the book examines three key dimensions of democracy: citizenship, accountability, and socioeconomic (in)equality. Drawing from political theory, comparative politics, and political economy, the book explores cases from France, the US, India, Argentina, Chile, South Africa, Brazil, and Canada, and reveals how integrating police abuse can contribute to a more robust study of democracy and government in general.

Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Police Abuse in Contemporary DemocraciesMichelle D. Bonner, Michael Kempa, Mary Rose Kubal, and Guillermina Seri

Part I: Citizenship

2. Police Abuse and the Racialized Boundaries of Citizenship in FranceCathy Lisa Schneider

3. Police as State: Governing Citizenship through ViolenceGuillermina Seri and Jinee Lokaneeta

4. Development of the Concept of “Political Profiling”: Citizenship and Police Repression of Protest in QuebecFrancis Dupuis-Déri

Part II: Accountability

5. Holding Police Abuse to Account: The Challenge of Institutional Legitimacy, a Chilean Case StudyMichelle D. Bonner

6. Police Abuse and Democratic Accountability: Agonistic Surveillance of the Administrative StateRosa Squillacote and Leonard Feldman

7. Protest and Police Abuse: Racial Limits on Perceived AccountabilityChristian Davenport, Rose McDermott, and David Armstrong

Part III: Socioeconomic (In)Equality

8. Supporting the “Elite” Transition in South Africa: Police Abuse in a Violent Neoliberal DemocracyMarlea Clarke

9. Policing as Pacification: Postcolonial Legacies, Transnational Connections, and the Militarization of Urban Security in Democratic BrazilMarkus-Michael Müller

Part IV: Conclusion

10. Conclusion: Rethinking Police Abuse in Contemporary Democracies
Michelle D. Bonner

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      Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
      Publication Date: 04/01/2019
      ISBN13: 9783030102845, 978-3030102845
      ISBN10: 303010284X
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      Crime and criminology Political science and theory Social groups, communities and identities

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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 structural and conceptual dimension of extant democracies. The book draws our attention to how including the study of policing into our analyses strengthens our understanding of democracy, including the persistence of hybrid democracy and the decline of democracy. To this end, the book examines three key dimensions of democracy: citizenship, accountability, and socioeconomic (in)equality. Drawing from political theory, comparative politics, and political economy, the book explores cases from France, the US, India, Argentina, Chile, South Africa, Brazil, and Canada, and reveals how integrating police abuse can contribute to a more robust study of democracy and government in general.

      Table of Contents
      1. Introduction: Police Abuse in Contemporary DemocraciesMichelle D. Bonner, Michael Kempa, Mary Rose Kubal, and Guillermina Seri

      Part I: Citizenship

      2. Police Abuse and the Racialized Boundaries of Citizenship in FranceCathy Lisa Schneider

      3. Police as State: Governing Citizenship through ViolenceGuillermina Seri and Jinee Lokaneeta

      4. Development of the Concept of “Political Profiling”: Citizenship and Police Repression of Protest in QuebecFrancis Dupuis-Déri

      Part II: Accountability

      5. Holding Police Abuse to Account: The Challenge of Institutional Legitimacy, a Chilean Case StudyMichelle D. Bonner

      6. Police Abuse and Democratic Accountability: Agonistic Surveillance of the Administrative StateRosa Squillacote and Leonard Feldman

      7. Protest and Police Abuse: Racial Limits on Perceived AccountabilityChristian Davenport, Rose McDermott, and David Armstrong

      Part III: Socioeconomic (In)Equality

      8. Supporting the “Elite” Transition in South Africa: Police Abuse in a Violent Neoliberal DemocracyMarlea Clarke

      9. Policing as Pacification: Postcolonial Legacies, Transnational Connections, and the Militarization of Urban Security in Democratic BrazilMarkus-Michael Müller

      Part IV: Conclusion

      10. Conclusion: Rethinking Police Abuse in Contemporary Democracies
      Michelle D. Bonner

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