Policing the National Body
Subtitle: Sex, Race, and Criminalization
Contributors: Population, and the Environment Committee on Women (Corporate Author); Jael Miriam Silliman (Editor); Anannya Bhattacharjee (Editor); Angela Y. Davis (Editor)
Publisher: South End Press
Published: April 2002
Language: eng
Format: Library binding
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780896086616
Subjects: Black studies; Causes & prevention of crime; Racism & racial discrimination; Women's studies; Women's Studies - General; Minority women; Criminology; Social Science; United States; Sociology; USA; Multicultural Education; Discrimination & Racism; Social Science / Women's Studies; Crimes against; General; Political Science; Crime and race
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.