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In this balanced, detailed and convincing look at global policing, Lesley Wood traces the complex relations between the police force as an institution and its neoliberal context. Avoiding the temptation to reduce the police's function to simply that of some anonymous capitalist force, this is a necessary and rare account that is vital for anyone interested in protest policing and its increasing militarisation, as well as wider forms of global social control under neoliberalism. -- Nina Power, University of Roehampton, co-founder of Defend the Right to Protest Lesley Wood's radical analysis of the militarization of the policing of protest is a welcome contribution to the literature on the sociology of policing more generally. Smart, erudite, and empirically grounded, Wood's perspective on policing protest exposes deeper, often under-explored, theoretical dimensions of the politics of policing. -- James Sheptycki, professor of criminology, York University Crisis and Control sheds light on the economic and political roots of police brutality against legitimate social movements. Unfortunately, this is what our 'democracy' looks like. -- Francis Dupuis-Deri, professor of political science, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, and member of the Observatory on racial, social, and political profiling in the public space. Crisis and Control is an engaging and sophisticated study of protest policing, which exposes the threat such policing poses to democracy and the neoliberal dynamics that have made it a preferred strategy for repressing the 99% whenever they challenge the 1%. Highly recommended. -- William K. Carroll, professor of sociology, University of Victoria Lesley Wood offers a hard-hitting, insightful, and well-researched analysis of the changing forms of protest policing. In unpeeling the layered accounts of the coordinated police and security response to Toronto G20 demonstrations, Wood has found the means to explore many of the most pressing and troubling issues in the emerging nexus of neoliberalism and public order. This is an important contribution to the institutional sociology of policing. -- William K. Carroll, professor of criminal justice, Flinders University Lesley Wood's Crisis and Control shows clearly that the police wing of the state takes very seriously its task of understanding and defeating social resistance to austerity. Those engaged in that resistance would do well to return the favour. This book provides an excellent source of knowledge and insight into how the not-so-thin blue line thinks and operates. -- John Clarke, Organizer, Ontario Coalition Against Poverty A must-read for all who care about freedom of speech and see protest and public demonstration as a necessary and legitimate means of protecting democracy and bringing about social justice by influencing public opinion and government policy. With both from an academic and hands-on approach, Wood captures the impact of globalization and the use of warrior police forces by governments and big business. - -- Howard F Morton. QC., Barrister

A must-read for all who care about freedom of speech and see protest and public demonstration as a necessary and legitimate means of protecting democracy and bringing about social justice by influencing public opinion and government policy. With both from an academic and hands-on approach, Wood captures the impact of globalization and the use of warrior police forces by governments and big business. - -- Howard F Morton. QC., Barrister Lesley Wood's Crisis and Control shows clearly that the police wing of the state takes very seriously its task of understanding and defeating social resistance to austerity. Those engaged in that resistance would do well to return the favour. This book provides an excellent source of knowledge and insight into how the not-so-thin blue line thinks and operates. -- John Clarke, Organizer, Ontario Coalition Against Poverty Lesley Wood offers a hard-hitting, insightful, and well-researched analysis of the changing forms of protest policing. In unpeeling the layered accounts of the coordinated police and security response to Toronto G20 demonstrations, Wood has found the means to explore many of the most pressing and troubling issues in the emerging nexus of neoliberalism and public order. This is an important contribution to the institutional sociology of policing. -- Willem de Lint, professor of criminal justice, Flinders University Crisis and Control is an engaging and sophisticated study of protest policing, which exposes the threat such policing poses to democracy and the neoliberal dynamics that have made it a preferred strategy for repressing the 99% whenever they challenge the 1%. Highly recommended. -- William K. Carroll, professor of sociology, University of Victoria Crisis and Control sheds light on the economic and political roots of police brutality against legitimate social movements. Unfortunately, this is what our 'democracy' looks like. -- Francis Dupuis-Deri, professor of political science, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, and member of the Observatory on racial, social, and political profiling in the public space. A welcome contribution to the literature on the sociology of policing more generally. Smart, erudite, and empirically grounded, Wood's perspective on policing protest exposes deeper, often under-explored, theoretical dimensions of the politics of policing. -- James Sheptycki, Professor of Criminology, York University A balanced, detailed and convincing look at global policing. This is a necessary and rare account that is vital for anyone interested in protest policing and its increasing militarisation, as well as wider forms of global social control under neoliberalism. -- Nina Power, University of Roehampton, co-founder of Defend the Right to Protest

A balanced, detailed and convincing look at global policing. This is a necessary and rare account that is vital for anyone interested in protest policing and its increasing militarisation, as well as wider forms of global social control under neoliberalism. -- Nina Power, University of Roehampton, co-founder of Defend the Right to Protest A welcome contribution to the literature on the sociology of policing more generally. Smart, erudite, and empirically grounded, Wood's perspective on policing protest exposes deeper, often under-explored, theoretical dimensions of the politics of policing. -- James Sheptycki, Professor of Criminology, York University Crisis and Control sheds light on the economic and political roots of police brutality against legitimate social movements. Unfortunately, this is what our 'democracy' looks like. -- Francis Dupuis-Deri, professor of political science, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, and member of the Observatory on racial, social, and political profiling in the public space. Crisis and Control is an engaging and sophisticated study of protest policing, which exposes the threat such policing poses to democracy and the neoliberal dynamics that have made it a preferred strategy for repressing the 99% whenever they challenge the 1%. Highly recommended. -- William K. Carroll, professor of sociology, University of Victoria Lesley Wood offers a hard-hitting, insightful, and well-researched analysis of the changing forms of protest policing. In unpeeling the layered accounts of the coordinated police and security response to Toronto G20 demonstrations, Wood has found the means to explore many of the most pressing and troubling issues in the emerging nexus of neoliberalism and public order. This is an important contribution to the institutional sociology of policing. -- Willem de Lint, professor of criminal justice, Flinders University Lesley Wood's Crisis and Control shows clearly that the police wing of the state takes very seriously its task of understanding and defeating social resistance to austerity. Those engaged in that resistance would do well to return the favour. This book provides an excellent source of knowledge and insight into how the not-so-thin blue line thinks and operates. -- John Clarke, Organizer, Ontario Coalition Against Poverty A must-read for all who care about freedom of speech and see protest and public demonstration as a necessary and legitimate means of protecting democracy and bringing about social justice by influencing public opinion and government policy. With both from an academic and hands-on approach, Wood captures the impact of globalization and the use of warrior police forces by governments and big business. - -- Howard F Morton. QC., Barrister

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Lesley Wood is Associate Professor of Sociology at York University in Toronto, Canada. She is the author of Crisis and Control (Pluto, 2014), Direct Action, Deliberation and Diffusion (2012) and co-author of the third edition of Social Movements 1768-2012 (Pluto, 2012). She is an activist in the global justice and anti-poverty movements.

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