Police Abuse in Contemporary Democracies



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English | PDF,EPUB | 2018 | 278 Pages | ISBN : 3319728822 | 3.7 MB

This volume offers a much-needed analysis of police abuse and its implications for our understanding of cracy. Sometimes referred to as police violence or police repression, police abuse occurs in all cracies. It is not an exception or a stage of cratization. It is, this volume argues, a structural and conceptual dimension of extant cracies.
The book draws our attention to how including the study of policing into our analyses strengthens our understanding of cracy, including the persistence of hybrid cracy and the decline of cracy. To this end, the book examines three key dimensions of cracy: citizenship, accountability, and socioeconomic (in)equality. Drawing from political theory, comparative politics, and political economy, the book explores cases from France, the US, India, Argentina, Chile, South Africa, Brazil, and Canada, and reveals how integrating police abuse can contribute to a more robust study of cracy and government in general.