Crisis and Control

The Militarization of Protest Policing

Lesley J. Wood

• Publisher: Between the Lines
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9781771131612
• eBook ISBN: 9781771131629
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Criminal Procedure
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Crisis and Control explains how neoliberal shifts in political and economic systems are militarizing the policing of protest. The book offers a way to understand the influence of political processes on police practices and provides an empirical study of militarized protest policing from 1995 until the present.

Lesley J. Wood shows how protest policing techniques have become more militarised and more dependent on intelligence gathering over the past fifteen years partly as a result of the neoliberal restructuring political, economic and social processes. On an increasingly integrated and tumultuous globe, new militarized technologies, formations and frameworks are diffusing quickly through policing networks.

Crisis and Control uses novel theoretical and methodological approaches and a unique range of empirical data to make an important and radical contribution to a growing field.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• List of Acronyms
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Policing Waves of Protest, 1995–2013
• 3 To Serve and Protect Who? Policing Trends and Best Practices
• 4 Local Legitimacy and Struggles for Control
• 5 Officers Under Attack—The Thin Blue Line, Pepper Spray, and Police Identity
• 6 Experts, Agencies, the Private Security Sector, and Integration
• 7 Protest as Threat
• 8 Urine-filled Supersoakers
• 9 Crisis and Control
• Notes
• References
• Index