Posts tagged: policing

Jackie Wang: Ghosts of the Civil Dead

McKenzie Wark looks at Jackie Wang's new book on carceral capitalism, the predatory state, municipal plunder, and algorithmic governance.
Broadside for the Trump Era: The U.S. War on Drugs — From Its Origins to The Age of Trump

A compact, printable summary of the US War on Drugs by historian Jeremy Kuzmarov.
What Does That Make You? Public Narration and the Serial Murders of Black Women

By and large, contemporary social movements have failed to account for black women like the victims of serial killers in Peoria, Los Angeles, and Cleveland.
Status Quo, No Anti: On Contrariness and the #J20 trials

Absurd at it will seem, this episode of prosecutorial overreach should not be laughed off, even with a first set of acquittals in hand. Its obscene falsity has within it a moment of truth.
They Came in the Morning

The republication of If They Come in the Morning is an invitation to pick up the work documented in the book.
Against the criminalisation of street harassment in France

An open letter by French feminists and researchers into gender violence in opposition to a proposed law to make street harassment an infraction.
Tear Gas: From the Battlefields of WWI to the Streets of Today

30% off Tear Gas, which explores how it has become the most commonly used form of “less-lethal” police force.
Just Another Number

Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi reports on a deportation in London in this excerpt from The Right to the City.
The End of Policing

How the police endanger us and why we need to find an alternative. The End of Policing is 40% off until October 20, 23.59 PST
For a Critical Criminology

For too long the field of criminology in general, and police studies in particular, has cut itself off from larger questions of justice.
More War on Terror?: The Politics of Punishment and the Shooting in Las Vegas

Outbreaks of mass violence must be understood as social problems in need of political solutions rather than criminal justice problems in need of more punishment.
Detroit’s Rebellion and the Rise of the Neoliberal State

The unprecedented prison expansion over the last four decades is inconceivable outside the context of mass antiracist and class struggle and the state’s crushing of the urban insurrections of the 1960s.