Policing Empires : Militarization, Race, and the Imperial Boomerang in Britain and the US

著者名：Go, Julian

Oxford University Press（2023/08/22発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9780197621653
• eISBN：9780197621684

Description

The police response to protests erupting on America's streets in recent years has made the militarization of policing painfully transparent. Yet, properly demilitarizing the police requires a deeper understanding of its historical development, causes, and social logics. Policing Empires offers a postcolonial historical sociology of police militarization in Britain and the United States to aid that effort. Julian Go tracks when, why, and how British and US police departments have adopted military tactics, tools, and technologies for domestic use. Go reveals that police militarization has occurred since the very founding of modern policing in the nineteenth century into the present, and that it is an effect of the "imperial boomerang." Policing Empires thereby unlocks the dirty secret of police militarization: Police have brought imperial practices home to militarize themselves in response to perceived racialized threats from minority and immigrant populations.

Table of Contents

AcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroduction: A Civil Police?The Coloniality of Policing1. The Birth of the Civil Police in London, 18292. Cotton Colonialism and the New Police in the US and England, 1830s-1850sThe New Imperialism at Home3. Police "Reform" and the Colonial Boomerang in the US, 1890s-1930s4. "Our Problems...are not so Difficult": Militarization and its Limits in Britain, 1850s-1910sInformal Empire and Urban Insurgency5. Tactical Imperialism in the US, 1950s-1970s6. Cycles of Policing & Insurgency in Britain, 1960s-1980sConclusion: Policing Beyond Empire?BibliographyIndex