1st Edition

Rethinking Policing and Justice Exploring Alternatives to Law Enforcement

Edited By Luis Fernandez, Laura Huey Copyright 2012
106 Pages
by Routledge

112 Pages
by Routledge

112 Pages
by Routledge

It has become somewhat axiomatic to refer to the police as the ‘gatekeepers’ of the criminal justice system and thus as a mechanism for the provision of justice. And yet, when we conceptualize the police in this way, what is often taken for granted is the exact nature of that role and its larger social meaning. Indeed, we know that police deliver justice more efficiently to some and injustice to... Read more

Introduction: alternatives to policing Laura Huey and Luis A. Fernandez  1. Responding to officers’ gendered experiences through community policing and improving police accountability to citizens Marilyn Corsianos  2. Policing ‘below the state’ in Germany: neocommunitarian soberness and punitive paternalism Volker Eick  3. The space between the steps: reckoning in an era of reconciliation Michelle Stewart  4. The Shanti Sena ‘peace center’ and the non-policing of an anarchist temporary autonomous zone: Rainbow Family peacekeeping strategies Michael I. Niman  5. Civilian oversight as a public good: democratic policing, civilian oversight, and the social Danielle Hryniewicz  6. "Where Abolition Meets Action: women organizing against gender violence Vikki Law  7. Corking as community policing Jeff Ferrell

Biography

Luis A. Fernandez is Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northern Arizona University, USA. He is the author of several books, including Policing Dissent: Social Control and the Anti-Globalization Movement and Shutting Down the Streets: Political Violence and Social Control in the Global Era.

Laura Huey is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. Laura is the author of several publications in the fields of policing, victimization and surveillance, including Negotiating Demands: The Politics of Policing of Skid Row in Edinburgh, San Francisco and Vancouver.