Policing Dissent
Subtitle: Social Control and the Anti-globalization Movement (Critical Issues in Crime and Society)
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: February 28, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780813542140
Subjects: Crime & criminology; Demonstrations & protest movements; Police & security services; Social Science; Sociology; Criminology; Sociology - General
Description: Provides a firsthand account of the changing nature of control efforts employed by local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies when confronted with mass activism. Based on ethnographic research, and using an incisive, cutting-edge theoretical framework, Fernandez maps the use of legal, physical, and psychological approaches. Fernandez does not merely seek to explain the causal relationship between repression and mobilization. Rather, he shows how social control strategies act on the mind and body of protesters. From publisher description.