Acknowledgements
List of Acronyms
1. Introduction
2. Policing Waves of Protest 1995–2013
3. To Serve and Protect Who? Policing Trends and Best Practices
4. Local Legitimacy and Struggles for Control
5. Officers Under Attack: The Thin Blue Line, Pepper Spray and
Police Identity
6. Experts, Agencies, the Private Security Sector and
Integration
7. Protest as Threat
8. Urine-Filled Supersoakers
9. Crisis and Control
Notes
References
Index
Lesley Wood is Associate Professor of Sociology at York University in Toronto, Canada. She is the author of Crisis and Control (Pluto, 2014), Direct Action, Deliberation and Diffusion (2012) and co-author of the third edition of Social Movements 1768-2012 (Pluto, 2012). She is an activist in the global justice and anti-poverty movements.
'A welcome contribution to the literature on the sociology of
policing more generally. Smart, erudite, and empirically grounded,
Wood's perspective on policing protest exposes deeper, often
under-explored, theoretical dimensions of the politics of
policing'
*James Sheptycki, Professor of Criminology, York University*
'Sheds light on the economic and political roots of police
brutality against legitimate social movements. Unfortunately, this
is what our 'democracy' looks like'
*Francis Dupuis-Déri, professor of political science, Université du
Québec à Montréal, and member of the Observatory on racial, social,
and political profiling in the public space.*
'An engaging and sophisticated study of protest policing, which
exposes the threat such policing poses to democracy and the
neoliberal dynamics that have made it a preferred strategy for
repressing the 99% whenever they challenge the 1%'
*William K. Carroll, professor of sociology, University of
Victoria*
'A hard-hitting, insightful, and well-researched analysis of the
changing forms of protest policing'
*Willem de Lint, professor of criminal justice, Flinders
University*
'Shows clearly that the police wing of the state takes very
seriously its task of understanding and defeating social resistance
to austerity. Those engaged in that resistance would do well to
return the favour. This book provides an excellent source of
knowledge and insight into how the not-so-thin blue line thinks and
operates'
*John Clarke, Organizer, Ontario Coalition Against Poverty*
'A must-read for all who care about freedom of speech and see
protest and public demonstration as a necessary and legitimate
means of protecting democracy'
*Howard F Morton. QC., Barrister*
'A powerful dissection of the ways that the policing of protests
have been transformed over the last decade'
*The Bullet*
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