Policing the National Body
Subtitle: Race, Gender and Criminalization
Contributors: Population, and the Environment Committee on Women (Corporate Author); Angela Y. Davis (Editor)
Publisher: South End Press
Published: April 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780896086609
Subjects: Black studies; Causes & prevention of crime; Racism & racial discrimination; Women's studies; Education; Social Science; General; Political Science; Sociology; USA; Women's Studies - General; Social Science / Women's Studies; Crimes against; Multicultural Education; Crime and race; Minority women; United States
First sentence: Over the past thirty years, the entire apparatus of law enforcement in the United States has expanded dramatically, becoming more punitive, highly integrated, heavily funded, and technologically sophisticated.