Police: A Field Guide
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| Rating | : | 4.29 (786 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1786630141 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the Author David Correia is an associate professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of New Mexico. Tyler Wall is an assistant professor in the School of Justice Studies at Eastern Kentucky University . He is the author of Properties of Violence: Law and Land Grant Struggle in Northern New Mexico
A Field Guide to the Police is a study of the indirect and taken-for granted language of policing, a language we're all forced to speak when we talk about law enforcement. The book argues that a redefined language of policing might help us chart a future free of police and police violence.. The book refuses to see the world as police do, instead it contends that when we talk about police and police reform, we speak the language of police legitimation through the art of euphemism. State sexual assault becomes "body-cavity search," and ruthless beatings become "plain compliance." Like any other field guide, it r
Tyler Wall is an assistant professor in the School of Justice Studies at Eastern Kentucky University . David Correia is an associate professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of New Mexico. He is the author of Properties of Violence: Law and Land Grant Struggle in Northern New Mexico