Defund the Police
eBook - ePub

Defund the Police

An International Insurrection

  1. 152 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Defund the Police

An International Insurrection

About this book

The police are viewed as guardians of public safety and enforcers of the law. How accurate is this? Given endemic police violence which is often aimed at racialised and minoritised groups and the failure of many attempts at reform, attention has turned to community-generated models of support. These include defunding the police and instead funding alternatives to criminalisation and incarceration.

This book is the first comprehensive overview of police divestment, using international examples and case studies to reimagine community safety beyond policing and imprisonment.

Showcasing a range of practical examples, this topical book will be relevant for academics, policy makers, activists and all those interested in the Black Lives Matter movement, protest movements and the renewed interest in policing and abolitionism more generally.

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Information

Publisher
Policy Press
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781447361664
eBook ISBN
9781447361688

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. List of Abbreviations
  6. About the Author
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. 1 Time for change
  9. 2 A brief history of policing
  10. 3 Don’t police solve crime?
  11. 4 The protest movement never stopped: from Black Power to zero tolerance
  12. 5 Police violence is the pandemic
  13. 6 The protection racket
  14. 7 Disabling policing, protecting community health
  15. 8 The failure of reform
  16. 9 What is to be done?
  17. Notes
  18. References
  19. Index