| Description |
1 online resource (393 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Policing Empires -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Permissions Notes -- Introduction: A Civil Police? -- PART I THE COLONIALITY OF POLICING -- 1. The Birth of the Civil Police in London, 1829 -- 2. Cotton Colonialism and the New Police in the United States and England, 1830s-1850s -- PART II THE NEW IMPERIALISM AT HOME -- 3. Police "Reform" and the Colonial Boomerang in the United States, 1890s-1930s -- 4. "Our Problems . . . Are Not So Difficult": Militarization and Its Limits in Britain, 1850s-1930s |
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PART III INFORMAL EMPIRE AND URBAN INSURGENCY -- 5. Tactical Imperialism in the United States, 1950s-1970s -- 6. Cycles of Policing and Insurgency in Britain, 1960s-1980s -- Conclusion: Policing Beyond Empire? -- Notes -- References -- Index |
| Summary |
In Policing Empires, Julian Go offers a postcolonial historical sociology of police militarization in Britain and the United States. He tracks when, why, and how British and US police departments have adopted military tactics, tools, and technologies for domestic use. Using both secondary and primary archival sources, Go reveals that police militarization has occurred since the very founding of modern policing. This book thereby unlocks the dirty secret of police militarization: Police have brought the imperial boomerang home to militarize themselves in response to perceived racialized threats |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Militarization of police -- Great Britain
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Militarization of police -- United States
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Police -- Great Britain -- History
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Police -- United States -- History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780197621684 |
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0197621686 |
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