The Police, Activists, and Knowledge

The Struggle Against Racialized Policing in France

Magda Boutros (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2026 | New edition
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5036-4506-6 (ISBN)

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Over the past fifteen years in France, police brutality, racial profiling, and police impunity have become salient issues of the public and political debate. In this book, Magda Boutros examines the social movements that brought these issues to the forefront of public conversations and analyzes how they influenced the terms of the debate about policing and inequality. In France, like in other countries, the police hold significant power to determine what is known – and what remains hidden – about their practices. Drawing on a comparative ethnography of three activist coalitions, Boutros shows the different ways activists produced evidence about policing and racial inequalities: collecting quantitative data, documenting lived experiences of police targets, or victims coming together to analyze patterns of oppression. Each approach to data production shaped activists' conceptions of police violence and racism, their ability to push beyond a "bad apples" narrative, and their visions for change. It also impacted their capacity to push the boundaries of what is knowable and sayable in the media, policy, and judicial fields.

Boutros argues that we must pay attention to the capacity of the police to control what we know, and to the methods movements use to produce knowledge about policing and inequality.

Magda Boutros is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Sciences Po, Center for Research on Social Inequalities (CRIS), CNRS, Paris, France.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	10.2.2026
Zusatzinfo	3 tables, 2 figures
Verlagsort	Palo Alto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-5036-4506-1 / 1503645061
ISBN-13	978-1-5036-4506-6 / 9781503645066
Zustand	Neuware