Asset Details
Do you wish to reserve the book?
The Horror of Police
Hey, we have placed the reservation for you!
By the way, why not check out events that you can attend while you pick your title.
Oops! Something went wrong.
Looks like we were not able to place the reservation. Kindly try again later.
Are you sure you want to remove the book from the shelf?
The Horror of Police
Do you wish to request the book?
The Horror of Police
Please be aware that the book you have requested cannot be checked out. If you would like to checkout this book, you can reserve another copy
We have requested the book for you!
Your request is successful and it will be processed during the Library working hours. Please check the status of your request in My Requests.
Oops! Something went wrong.
Looks like we were not able to place your request. Kindly try again later.
eBook
The Horror of Police
2022
Overview
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.
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Subject
ISBN
9781517905927, 1517905923, 9781452967639, 1452967636
