This bookadvances a much-needed "postcolonial" framework in analyzing the police. It seeks to deepen our understanding of the police role in maintaining Western global domination throughout the American region despite the violent end of colonial rule.Building on Chevigny's (1995) classic study, this book seeks to draw renewed attention to the role of police in perpetrating state violence and serving as the tip of the spear of state power. It seeks tounderstand the construction of marginality and the multiple and intersecting structures of colonial domination, beforeshining a light directly on the crimes of the state, in an attempt to hold criminal state organizations to account. It draws oninterdisciplinary perspectives and methodologies that center marginalized and colonized experiences and allows for the development of countercolonial knowledge. It speaks to academics and students incriminology, sociology, political science, and law, as well as toethnic and area studies programs, such as Chicano/Latino and Latin American Studies, and to police administrators and policymakers.

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Yes, you can access Police and State Crime in the Americas by Daniel Gascón,Sebastián Sclofsky,Xavier Perez,Jhon Sanabria,Analicia Mejia Mesinas in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Civil Rights in Law. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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1. Introduction: Policing and State Crime: A View from the South
Part I. Regimes
Part II. Organizations
Part III. Crimes
Part IV. Future Directions
Correction to: “Imperialism without Imperialists” and the Settler-Colonial Logics of Reservation Policing
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