Louis A Ruprecht

Policing the State, Second Edition

Democratic Reflections on Police Power Gone Awry, in Memory of Kathryn Johnston (1914-2006). 2nd edition. Sprache: Englisch.

gebunden , 154 Seiten

ISBN 1498231128

EAN 9781498231121

Veröffentlicht Oktober 2015

Verlag/Hersteller Wipf & Stock Publishers

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Beschreibung

The manner in which Kathryn Johnston died so tragically at the hands of Atlanta narcotics police on the evening of November 21, 2006, anticipates and informs a number of very contemporary--and extremely volatile--issues that have become closely associated with the name of Ferguson, Missouri. As the "Black Lives Matter" movement makes clear, the issues center primarily around the relationship between racial identity and lethal police violence in the United States today. In this Second Edition of Policing the State, Louis A. Ruprecht Jr. attempts to situate both "Ferguson" and "Black Lives Matter" within a relatively narrow historical frame of the two years since Policing the State was first published, as well as a longer history of the emergence of a more violent policing regime and an ever-more intensely carceral society that came on the scene quite suddenly in the United States in the mid-to-late 1980s.

Portrait

Louis A. Ruprecht Jr. is the inaugural holder of the William M. Suttles Chair in the Department of Religious Studies at Georgia State University in Atlanta. His previous books include Tragic Posture and Tragic Vision (1994),
Afterwords (1996), Symposia (1999), and Was Greek Thought Religious? (2002).