Policing Life and Death

Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico

Marisol LeBrón (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2019
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-30016-3 (ISBN)

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In her exciting new book, Marisol LeBrón traces the rise of punitive governance in Puerto Rico over the course of the twentieth century and up to the present. Punitive governance emerged as a way for the Puerto Rican state to manage the deep and ongoing crises stemming from the archipelago’s incorporation into the United States as a colonial territory. A structuring component of everyday life for many Puerto Ricans, police power has reinforced social inequality and worsened conditions of vulnerability in marginalized communities.

This book provides powerful examples of how Puerto Ricans negotiate and resist their subjection to increased levels of segregation, criminalization, discrimination, and harm. Policing Life and Death shows how Puerto Ricans are actively rejecting punitive solutions and working toward alternative understandings of safety and a more just future.

Marisol LeBrón is Assistant Professor in the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: They Don’t Care If We Die
1 • A War against the Victims
2 • Colonial Projects
3 • Underground
4 • The Continued Promise of Punishment
5 • Policing Solidarity
6 • #ImperfectVictims
7 • Security from Below
Postscript: Broken Windows and Future Horizons
after the Storm

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	31.05.2019
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	590 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-520-30016-5 / 0520300165
ISBN-13	978-0-520-30016-3 / 9780520300163
Zustand	Neuware