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The Horror of Police
Unmasks the horrors of a social order reproduced and
maintained by the violence of police Year after year the
crisis churns: graft and corruption, violence and murder, riot cops
and armored vehicles claim city streets. Despite promises of
reform, police operate with impunity, unaccountable to law. In
The Horror of Police , Travis Linnemann asks why, with this
open record of violence and corruption, policing remains for so
many the best, perhaps only means of security in an insecure
world.
Drawing on the language and texts of horror fiction, Linnemann
recasts the police not only as self-proclaimed \"monster fighters\"
but as monsters themselves, a terrifying force set loose in the
world. Purposefully misreading a collection of everyday police
stories (TV cop dramas, detective fiction, news media accounts, the
direct words of police) not as morality tales of innocence avenged
and order restored but as horror , Linnemann reveals the
monstrous violence at the heart of liberal social order.
The Horror of Police shows that police violence is not
a deviation but rather a deliberate and permanent fixture of U.S.
\"law and order.\" Only when viewed through the refracted motif of
horror stories, Linnemann argues, can we begin to reckon the limits
of police and imagine a world without them.
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Meth Wars
How the War on Drugs is maintained through racism,authority and
public opinion. From the hit television series Breaking Bad, to
daily news reports, anti-drug advertising campaigns and highly
publicized world-wide hunts for \"narcoterrorists\" such as Joaquin
\"El Chapo\" Guzman, the drug, methamphetamine occupies a unique and
important space in the public's imagination. In Meth Wars, Travis
Linnemann situates the \"meth epidemic\" within the broader culture
and politics of drug control and mass incarceration. Linnemann
draws together a range of examples and critical interdisciplinary
scholarship to show how methamphetamine, and the drug war more
generally, are part of a larger governing strategy that animates
the politics of fear and insecurity and links seemingly unrelated
concerns such as environmental dangers, the politics of immigration
and national security, policing tactics, and terrorism. The
author's unique analysis presents a compelling case for how the
supposed \"meth epidemic\" allows politicians, small town police and
government counter-narcotics agents to engage in a singular
policing project in service to the broader economic and
geostrategic interests of the United States.
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No Chance
The idea that police could leave an arrest wholly to chance flies in the face of \"community values, standards\" and liberal commonsense understandings of \"law enforcement,\" which assume such decisions are always firmly grounded in the training, experience, and ethics of individual officers and the legal protocols and administrative guidelines that govern the profession as a whole. For those who see the police as the indispensable cornerstone of liberal social order, no duty, even their most mundane, must be left to chance, and to do so would be to abdicate or necessarily abandon their solemn contract with the community. Here, Wall and Linnemann focus on discretion and violence, placing this violence at the very heart of the analysis of police.
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CAPOTE'S GHOSTS: VIOLENCE, MEDIA AND THE SPECTRE OF SUSPICION
In 1959, on the Kansas high plains, two ex-convict drifters fell upon a defenseless farm family, slaying them 'in cold blood'. As the subject of a book widely regarded as the first of the modern true crime genre—Truman Capote's In Cold Blood—the murdered and murderers live on in the spectral, haunting the minds of the public as the horrors of random crimes and senseless violence. Paying close attention to the cultural production of both the present and absent, this paper considers how violence haunts commonplace geographies and the imaginations of everyday actors, through the lens of banal crime reporting and celebrated true crime novels. Doing so, it offers unique context and insight into the production of suspect identities and the social insecurities that underpin everyday life.
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Meth Wars
How the War on Drugs is maintained through racism,authority and public opinion.
From the hit television series Breaking Bad , to daily news reports, anti-drug advertising campaigns and highly publicized world-wide hunts for “narcoterrorists” such as Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the drug, methamphetamine occupies a unique and important space in the public’s imagination. In Meth Wars , Travis Linnemann situates the meth epidemic within the broader culture and politics of drug control and mass incarceration.
Linnemann draws together a range of examples and critical interdisciplinary scholarship to show how methamphetamine, and the drug war more generally, are part of a larger governing strategy that animates the politics of fear and insecurity and links seemingly unrelated concerns such as environmental dangers, the politics of immigration and national security, policing tactics, and terrorism. The author’s unique analysis presents a compelling case for how the supposed “meth epidemic” allows politicians, small town police and government counter-narcotics agents to engage in a singular policing project in service to the broader economic and geostrategic interests of the United States.
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Beyond the Ghetto: Police Power, Methamphetamine and the Rural War on Drugs
Viewing police as important cultural producers, we ask how police power fashions structures of feeling and social imaginaries of the “war on drugs” in small towns of the rural Midwest. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and a collection of interviews focusing on police officers’ beliefs about the causes of crime and drug use, we locate a narrative of rural decline attributed to the producers and users of methamphetamine. We argue this narrative supports punitive and authoritarian sensibilities and broader narcopolitical projects more generally and ignores long-standing social inequalities observed in rural communities. As such, the cultural work of rural police provides important insight to the shape and direction of late-modern crime control beyond the familiar terrains of the city and its “ghetto.”
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'WITH SCENES OF BLOOD AND PAIN': Crime Control and the Punitive Imagination of The Meth Project
This article takes aim at an image-based methamphetamine (meth) intervention programme in the United States, to reveal disparate images of meth users organized along a binary system of value, pitting the sexual vulnerabilities of young women against the violent predation of young men. We argue the programme structures a particular visuality or way of seeing the supposed ills of meth use that agitates white middle-class social anxieties, through a 'meth epidemic' unfairly imagined as 'white' and 'rural'. Following self-justifying drug war logics, the project battles an epidemic it helps to create and sustain. Thus, we see the programme as an important site of cultural production where its punitive visualities contribute to structures of ideological penal policies and practices or 'imaginary penalities' that obfuscate alternatives for harm reduction and the ills of the neo-liberal order.
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