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Degrees Of Inequality: Culture, Class, And Gender In American Higher Education - Book Review, Karen Bradley
Degrees Of Inequality: Culture, Class, And Gender In American Higher Education - Book Review, Karen Bradley
Sociology
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Securitizing America: Strategic Incapacitation And The Policing Of Protest Since The 11 September 2001 Terrorist Attacks, Patrick F. Gillham
Securitizing America: Strategic Incapacitation And The Policing Of Protest Since The 11 September 2001 Terrorist Attacks, Patrick F. Gillham
Sociology
During the 1970s, the predominant strategy of protest policing shifted from “escalated force” and repression of protesters to one of “negotiated management” and mutual cooperation with protesters. Following the failures of negotiated management at the 1999 World Trade Organization (WTO) demonstrations in Seattle, law enforcement quickly developed a new social control strategy, referred to here as “strategic incapacitation.” The U.S. police response to the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks quickened the pace of police adoption of this new strategy, which emphasizes the goals of “securitizing society” and isolating or neutralizing the sources of potential disruption. These goals are accomplished through …