Violence work : state power and the limits of police / Micol Seigel.
| Author/creator | Seigel, Micol, 1968- author. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Durham : Duke University Press, 2018. |
| Copyright Date | ©2018 |
| Description | 1 online resource (xi, 300 pages) |
| Supplemental Content | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| Abstract | In Violence Work Micol Seigel offers a new theorization of the quintessential incarnation of state power: the police. Foregrounding the interdependence of policing, the state, and global capital, Seigel redefines policing as "violence work," showing how it is shaped by its role of channeling state violence. She 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, Seigel 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Use copy Restrictions unspecified star |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
| Technical details | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Action note | digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve |
| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Seigel, Micol, 1968- Violence work. Durham : Duke University Press, 2018 9781478000020 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2018008083 |
| ISBN | 9781478002024 (electronic book) |
| ISBN | 1478002026 (electronic book) |
| ISBN | (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
| ISBN | (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
| ISBN | (paperback) |
| ISBN | (paperback) |
| Stock number | 22573/ctv11gp80k JSTOR |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |