{"product_id":"violence-work-state-power-and-the-limits-of-police-hardback-9781478000020","title":"Violence Work; State Power and the Limits of Police (Hardback) 9781478000020","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eViolence Work\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eState Power and the Limits of Police\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMicol Seigel (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781478000020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 27 August 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e312 pages, 13 illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm, 0.567 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"An exceptionally sophisticated exploration of the nature of policing in relation to 'violence work.' . . . Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, and faculty.\"\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e - D. O. Friedrichs (Choice) \u003cdiv\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eViolence Work\u003c\/i\u003e] reveals a great deal about what we do and do not know about state-sponsored violence as well as how best to get there. . . . Seigel portrays state repression in a relatively new light, leading to refreshing insights about theory, data sources, and unexamined hypotheses. The book kills fascists because if you follow the logic contained within it, you are led directly to perpetrators of violence, as well as the varying types of institutions in which they are found.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Christian Davenport (Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics) \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eViolence Work\u003c\/i\u003e is an eye-opening, detailed and timely book that, for its historical approach, is an unusual appraisal of police legitimacy, which may not only to attract the attention of scholars and students of political science and criminal justice but also of policymakers, especially in this time of discussion of dismantling and defunding the police.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e - Nusret M. Sahin (Ethnic and Racial Studies)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eViolence Work\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003epolice\u003c\/i\u003e as a civilian, public, and local institution legitimizes state violence while preserving the myth of state benevolence.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAcknowledgments  vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Policing and State Power  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Office of Public Safety, the LEAA, and US Police  25\u003cbr\u003e 2. Civilian or Military? Distinction by Design  52\u003cbr\u003e 3. \"\u003cbr\u003eIndustrial Security\"\u003cbr\u003e in Alaska: The Great Public-Private Divide  73\u003cbr\u003e 4. Corporate States and Government Markets for Saudi Arabian Oil  99\u003cbr\u003e 5. Professors for Police: The Growth of Criminal Justice Education  121\u003cbr\u003e 6. Exiles at Home: A Refugee Structure of Feeling  146\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. Reckoning with Police Lethality  179\u003cbr\u003e Appendix  189\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations  191\u003cbr\u003e Notes  193\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  249\u003cbr\u003e Index  293\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press Books","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52591025783064,"sku":"9781478000020","price":82.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/violence-work-state-power-and-the-limits-of-police-hardback-9781478000020","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}