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OverviewWhile many applaud the apparent successes of community and saturation policing, Neil Websdale contends Instead that such law enforcement initiatives oppress rather than protect the poor, particularly African Americans in large urban centers. Based on a groundbreaking ethnographic study of public housing projects in Nashville, Tennessee, he argues persuasively that community policing is a critical component of a criminal justice juggernaut designed to manage or regulate stigmatized populations, much like slave patrols served as agents for social control on Southern plantations. In a work that is sure to stir controversy and heated debate, Websdale draws on extensive field research, documentary sources, and interviews to illuminate how a criminal justice system deeply rooted in racism and siavery destroys the black family, creates a form of selective breeding, and undermines the civil rights gains of the 1960s. Unlike previous studies of community policing, which analyze programs through the lens of law enforcement, this book focuses on the history, experiences, and perspectives of the people whose lives are most affected by today's policing strategies. Skillfully blending the voices of project residents with a rich synthesis of historical, sociological, and criminological analysis, Websdale describes the situational, cultural, and economic circumstances of Nashville's poor; examines the policing of social upheaval by detailing events in the 1997 looting and burning of the Dollar General Store; considers African American kinship systems and the special circumstances of battered women; and discusses why the vice trades-prostitution and selling drugs-thrive in public housing projects. Websdale's hard-hitting look at community policing and its negative impact on the urban poor provides a much-needed balance to prevailing optimistic views on the effectiveness of this new method of law enforcement. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Neil WebsdalePublisher: University Press of New England Imprint: Northeastern University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 23.00cm Weight: 0.630kg ISBN: 9781555534974ISBN 10: 155553497 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 31 October 2001 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationNeil Websdale is Professor of Criminal Justice at Northern Arizona University. He is the coeditor of Making Trouble: Cultural Constructions of Crime, Deviance, and Control and the author of Understanding Domestic Homicide and Rural Woman Battering and the Justice System: An Ethnography, winner of the 1999 Outstanding Book Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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