Collective Violence Democracy And Protest Policing

Author : David R Mansley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135114800

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Collective Violence, Democracy and Protest Policing by David R Mansley Pdf

In this book David Mansley argues that the frequency with which violence intrudes on to the streets is related to both how society is governed and how it is policed. With the help of an innovative methodology, he quantifies and tests three variables – collective violence, democracy and protest policing – using protests in Great Britain in 1999–2011, for his sampling frame. The result is the design of new tools of measurement and a harvest of new data, including previously unpublished details of banning orders and riot damages, that enable us to reflect, with the benefit of broad sociological perspective, on the causes of contemporary violent events. Mansley’s explanation of the trends he identifies draws from the work of the best thinkers on violence – especially Charles Tilly, Thomas Hobbes and Norbert Elias. He shows how the style of protest policing and the depth of democracy, both of which function under the direction of the political economy, are crucial to the state’s credentials as the monopoly supplier of legitimate violence. His discussion touches on such current topics as the institution of police commissioners, the privatisation of policing duties, and the decline in homicide. This cultured study, which includes an engaging review of the existing scholarship on violence, is essential material for undergraduate and postgraduate students reading criminology, sociology or political theory.

Author : Lesley J. Wood
Publisher : Between the Lines
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781771131629

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Crisis and Control by Lesley J. Wood Pdf

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 militarized 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.

Author : James F., Jr. Short,Marvin E. Wolfgang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351527736

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Collective Violence by James F., Jr. Short,Marvin E. Wolfgang Pdf

Collective violence has played an important role throughout American history, though we have typically denied it. But it is not enough to repress violence or to suppress our knowledge of it. We must understand the phenomenon, and to do this, we must learn what violent groups are trying to say. Th at some choose violence tells us something about the perpetrators, inevitably, about ourselves and the society we have built.

Author : Charles Tilly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2003-03-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521531454

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The Politics of Collective Violence by Charles Tilly Pdf

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Author : Donatella Della Porta,Herbert Reiter
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 081663064X

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Policing Protest by Donatella Della Porta,Herbert Reiter Pdf

The first international examination of how police respond to political protests. The way in which police handle political demonstrations is always potentially controversial. In contemporary democracies, police departments have two different, often conflicting aims: keeping the peace and defending citizens' right to protest. This collection, the only resource to examine police interventions cross-nationally, analyzes a wide array of policing styles. Focusing on Italy, France, Germany, Great Britain, Switzerland, Spain, the United States, and South Africa, the contributors look at cultures and political power to examine the methods and the consequences of policing protest.

Author : Michelle D. Bonner,Guillermina Seri,Mary Rose Kubal,Michael Kempa
Publisher : Springer
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319728834

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Police Abuse in Contemporary Democracies by Michelle D. Bonner,Guillermina Seri,Mary Rose Kubal,Michael Kempa Pdf

This volume offers a much-needed analysis of police abuse and its implications for our understanding of democracy. Sometimes referred to as police violence or police repression, police abuse occurs in all democracies. It is not an exception or a stage of democratization. It is, this volume argues, a structural and conceptual dimension of extant democracies. The book draws our attention to how including the study of policing into our analyses strengthens our understanding of democracy, including the persistence of hybrid democracy and the decline of democracy. To this end, the book examines three key dimensions of democracy: citizenship, accountability, and socioeconomic (in)equality. Drawing from political theory, comparative politics, and political economy, the book explores cases from France, the US, India, Argentina, Chile, South Africa, Brazil, and Canada, and reveals how integrating police abuse can contribute to a more robust study of democracy and government in general.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : OCLC:964590027

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Collective Violence by Anonim Pdf

Author : Paul A. Passavant
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781478013013

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Policing Protest by Paul A. Passavant Pdf

In Policing Protest Paul A. Passavant explores how the policing of protest in the United States has become increasingly hostile since the late 1990s, moving away from strategies that protect protesters toward militaristic practices designed to suppress protests. He identifies reactions to three interrelated crises that converged to institutionalize this new mode of policing: the political mobilization of marginalized social groups in the Civil Rights era that led to a perceived crisis of democracy, the urban fiscal crisis of the 1970s, and a crime crisis that was associated with protests and civil disobedience of the 1960s. As Passavant demonstrates, these reactions are all haunted by the figure of black insurrection, which continues to shape policing of protest and surveillance, notably in response to the Black Lives Matter movement. Ultimately, Passavant argues, this trend of violent policing strategies against protesters is evidence of the emergence of a post-democratic state in the United States.

Author : Shirley Paré,Vern Neufeld Redekop
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781849663564

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Beyond Control by Shirley Paré,Vern Neufeld Redekop Pdf

'What is refreshing about Beyond Control is the vision for the kind of society in which protestors and police recognize their mutual humanity as well as how both are needed for a democratic society to function well. ' From the Foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu How can large protest crowds be better and more respectfully managed by police? This topical book applies the principles of community-based conflict resolution to the policing of large crowds, suggesting a completely new approach that moves away from the discourse of rabble-rousing mobs towards negotiated management, and a paradigm of mutual respect for protesters as principled dissenters and for police as non-repressive agents of public order. Both are needed, the authors argue, in order for democracy to flourish.

Author : Seraphim Seferiades,Hank Johnston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317001638

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Violent Protest, Contentious Politics, and the Neoliberal State by Seraphim Seferiades,Hank Johnston Pdf

This volume of cutting-edge research comparatively analyzes violent protest and rioting, furthering our understanding of this increasingly prevalent form of claim making. Hank Johnston and Seraphim Seferiades bring together internationally recognized experts in the field of protest studies and contentious politics to analyze the causes and trajectories of violence as a protest tactic. Crossnational comparisons from North America, Britain, France, Germany, Greece, Iran, Thailand, and elsewhere contribute to the volume's theoretical elaboration, while several case studies add depth to the discussion. This title will be of key importance to scholars across the social sciences, including sociology, political science, geography and criminology. Johnston and Seferiades's exciting book is a significant contribution to the study of rioting and violent protest in the contemporary neoliberal state.

Author : Luis A. Fernandez,Amory Starr,Christian Scholl
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780814708736

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Shutting Down the Streets by Luis A. Fernandez,Amory Starr,Christian Scholl Pdf

Recently, a wall was built in eastern Germany. Made of steel and cement blocks, topped with razor barbed wire, and reinforced with video monitors and movement sensors, this wall was not put up to protect a prison or a military base, but rather to guard a three-day meeting of the finance ministers of the Group of Eight (G8). The wall manifested a level of security that is increasingly commonplace at meetings regarding the global economy. The authors of Shutting Down the Streets have directly observed and participated in more than 20 mass actions against global in North America and Europe, beginning with the watershed 1999 WTO meetings in Seattle and including the 2007 G8 protests in Heiligendamm. Shutting Down the Streets is the first book to conceptualize the social control of dissent in the era of alterglobalization. Based on direct observation of more than 20 global summits, the book demonstrates that social control is not only global, but also preemptive, and that it relegates dissent to the realm of criminality. The charge is insurrection, but the accused have no weapons. The authors document in detail how social control forecloses the spaces through which social movements nurture the development of dissent and effect disruptive challenges.

Author : Dr Abby Peterson,Dr Herbert Reiter,Professor Donatella della Porta
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781409493259

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The Policing of Transnational Protest by Dr Abby Peterson,Dr Herbert Reiter,Professor Donatella della Porta Pdf

Having long been a neglected issue, the policing of protest began to attract considerable attention in the 1990s, climaxing in the events in Seattle of 1999. These protests and the changing political climate since September 11, 2001 mean that a new cycle of protest is challenging the concept of law and order and civil liberties. This book examines how new policing styles are developing using case studies from North America and Europe. The volume brings together researchers from a number of disciplines – sociology, criminology, political science and mass communication – who focus on new forms of political protest, policing and public order.

Author : Paul A. Passavant
Publisher : Global and Insurgent Legalitie
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1478010452

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Policing Protest by Paul A. Passavant Pdf

Paul A. Passavant explores how the policing of protest in the United States has become increasingly hostile since the late 1990s, moving away from strategies that protect protestors toward militaristic practices designed to suppress legal protests.

Author : Marieke Denissen
Publisher : Rozenberg Publishers
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789051709643

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Winning Small Battles, Losing the War by Marieke Denissen Pdf

Since the mid-1990s more and more Argentines have been taking to the streets to express their dissatisfaction with the growing levels of poverty, social exclusion and violence. As part of this growing trend, the Movimiento del Dolor (a social movement consisting of the family members of victims of police violence) emerged as a protest against unaccountable law enforcement practices. As a result, police violence and impunity gained a place on the societal and political agenda, and several police reforms have been enacted. This book will offer a critical discussion of the interplay among the phenomena police violence, democracy and social movements. The present volume contains an in-depth analysis of the aims and impact of the Movimiento del Dolor. This study aims to contribute to a better understanding of the ways that social movements use citizenship as frame in order to address the fault lines of their democracies. As such, the book will show the dynamics inherent in a democratizing society that is characterized, on the one hand, by an active and mobilized civil society, generally fair elections and reduced military power and, on the other hand, the continuation of police violence, impunity, lack of political legitimacy and accountability, and the co-opting of social movements.

Author : Bernd Bürger,Tamara D. Herold,Ryan Lee
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031438561

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Public Order Policing by Bernd Bürger,Tamara D. Herold,Ryan Lee Pdf

Successful public order management is critical to upholding democracy and maintaining the rule of law. Negative police-public interactions during assemblies can impact the safety and well-being of citizens and officers, as well as local and international perceptions of police legitimacy. As observed during events across the world, including assemblies in the U.S., Myanmar, Belarus, Russia, and elsewhere, police mismanagement of mass demonstrations often instigates crowd violence and other harmful behaviors. The causes of violence at assemblies are complex and multi-faceted. Failure to understand crowd dynamics that lead to violence limits police effectiveness and contributes to poor officer decision-making. This book offers an international review of public order management experiences and effective practices. Practical examples, grounded in multi-disciplinary theory and science, offer a roadmap to improve police response and increase safety at assemblies in democratic countries. The diverse content, perspectives, and lessons learned presented in this volume will serve as a useful guide for all people working in the field of public order management, including police officials, policymakers, and researchers. This edited volume was written by and for practitioners, pracademics, and academics to review the complex and demanding task of policing public order.