{"product_id":"urban-insecurity-policing-the-neoliberal-crisis-paperback","title":"Urban (In)Security: Policing the Neoliberal Crisis - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eVolker Eick\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eKendra Briken\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe neoliberalization of policing and the policing of neoliberalization are worldwide phenomena. While the first trend effects the organization of policing, the second trend brings about new policing strategies executed by state police, commercial security contractors and by nonprofit police forces. This volume for the first time brings together empirical studies comparing policing strategies from Australia, Britain, France, Germany, India, Lithuania, Sweden and the United States. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eENDORSEMENTS\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This book illuminates the ways in which the implementation of [neoliberal] policies has also entailed an intensified militarization of urban space as local police forces--which now include both commercial and nonprofit agents--promote new forms of surveillance, social control and repression within local populations.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e-Neil Brenner\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Urban Theory in the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University and is co-editor of \u003ci\u003eCities for People, Not for Profit: Critical Urban Theory and the Right to the City.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Eick and Briken have amassed a rich collection of new and theoretically important work that makes this book an absolute 'must read' for critical scholars of all persuasions.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e-Laura Huey\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, The University of Western Ontario, Co-editor of\u003ci\u003e Surveillance \u0026amp; Society\u003c\/i\u003eand author of \u003ci\u003einvisible Victims: Homelessness and the Growing Security Gap \u003c\/i\u003e(UTP 2012).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The editors have brought together authors from a wide range of contexts and backgrounds who scrutinize state and private policing as a form of wage labor, as a set of practices to govern populations and as a means to secure capitalist accumulation under actually existing neoliberalism. ...a very welcome addition to the literature. Critical scholars in a variety of fields will surely learn much from it.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e-Bernd Belina\u003c\/b\u003e, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Professor of Human Geography, Co-editor of\u003ci\u003e Kriminologisches Journal\u003c\/i\u003e and author of\u003ci\u003e Raum, Überwachung, Kontrolle\u003c\/i\u003e (Münster 2006)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eCONTRIBUTORS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Kendra Briken, Volker Eick, Luis A. Fernandez, Anibel Ferus-Comelo, Peter Gahan, Mélina Germes, Bill Harley, Arunas Juska, Andreas Lohner, Margit Mayer, Samantha Ponting, Ann Rodenstedt, Chris Scholl, Graham Sewell, Alison Wakefield, Andrew Wallace, Charles Woolfson\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 406\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.83 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 01, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47584471056605,"sku":"9781926958293","price":77.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/PRqvmWHTSz9781926958293.webp?v=1773613083","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/urban-insecurity-policing-the-neoliberal-crisis-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}