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Author Seigel, Micol, 1968- author.

Title Violence work : state power and the limits of police / Micol Seigel.

Publication Info. Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
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 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  363.2 SEI    Check Shelf
Description xi, 300 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: policing and state power -- The Office of Public Safety, the LEAA, and US police -- Civilian or military? distinction by design -- "Industrial security" in Alaska: the great public-private divide -- Corporate states and government markets for Saudi Arabian oil -- Professors for police: the growth of criminal justice education -- Exiles at home: a refugee structure of feeling -- Conclusion: reckoning with police lethality.
Summary Offers a theorization of the quintessential incarnation of state power: the police. Foregrounding the interdependence of policing, the state, and global capital, the author redefines policing as "violence work," showing how it is shaped by its role of channeling state violence. The author traces this dynamic by examining the formation, demise, and aftermath of the U.S. State Department's Office of Public Safety (OPS), which between 1962 and 1974 specialized in training police forces internationally. Officially a civilian agency, the OPS grew and operated in military and counterinsurgency realms in ways that transgressed the borders that are meant to contain the police within civilian, public, and local spheres. Tracing the career paths of OPS agents after their agency closed, the author shows how police practices writ large are rooted in violence - especially against people of color, the poor, and working people - and how understanding police as a civilian, public, and local institution legitimizes state violence while preserving the myth of state benevolence.
Subject United States. Agency for International Development. Office of Public Safety.
Police brutality -- United States.
Police training -- United States.
State-sponsored terrorism -- United States.
Police brutality. (OCoLC)fst01068571
Police training. (OCoLC)fst01068706
State-sponsored terrorism. (OCoLC)fst01131965
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Other Form: Online version: Seigel, Micol, 1968- Violence work. Durham : Duke University Press, 2018 9781478002024 (DLC) 2018008083
ISBN 9781478000020 hardcover ; alkaline paper
1478000023 hardcover ; alkaline paper
9781478000174 paperback ; alkaline paper
1478000171 paperback ; alkaline paper
9781478002024 (ebook)
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