Police, Power, and the Production of Racial Boundaries

Police, Power, and the Production of Racial Boundaries (Critical Issues in Crime and Society)

Based on five years of ethnography, archival research, census data analysis, and interviews,Â Police, Power, and the Production of Racial Boundaries reveals how the LAPD, city prosecutors, and business owners struggled to control who should be considered â€œdangerousâ€ and how they should be policed in Los Angeles. Sociologist Ana MuÃ±iz shows how these influential groups used policies and everyday procedures to criminalize behaviors commonly associated with blacks and Latinos and to promote an exceedingly aggressive form of policing.
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MuÃ±iz illuminates the degree to which the definitions of â€œgangsâ€ and â€œdeviantsâ€ are politically constructed labels born of public policy and court decisions, offering an innovative look at the process of criminalization and underscoring the ways in which a politically powerful coalition can define deviant behavior. As she does so, MuÃ±iz also highlights the various grassroots challenges to such policies and the efforts to call attention to their racist effects.Â MuÃ±iz describes the fight over two very different methods of policing: community policing (in which the police and the community work together) and the â€œbroken windowsâ€ or â€œzero toleranceâ€ approach (which aggressively polices minor infractionsâ€”such as loiteringâ€”to deter more serious crime). Police, Power, and the Production of Racial Boundaries also explores the history of the area to explain how Cadillac-Corning became viewed by outsiders as a â€œviolent neighborhoodâ€ and how the cityâ€™s first gang injunctionâ€”a restraining order aimed at alleged gang membersâ€”solidified this negative image. As a result, MuÃ±iz shows, Cadillac-Corning and other sections became a test site for repressive practices that eventually spread to the rest of the city.
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Country USA
Brand Rutgers University Press
Manufacturer Rutgers University Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber black & white illustrations
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9780813569758
ReleaseDate 2015-06-26

Country	USA
Brand	Rutgers University Press
Manufacturer	Rutgers University Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	black & white illustrations
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9780813569758
ReleaseDate	2015-06-26

Police, Power, and the Production of Racial Boundaries (Critical Issues in Crime and Society)

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