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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Police violence"”.
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Reforming the Police: Violence, Security, and the Social in Turkey
… and policing in Turkey, as the proliferation of police-related crises once again brings police reform to the global spotlight. Drawing on 18 months of fieldwork in local police stations and neighborhoods in Ankara and Istanbul, Police Academy classes, practicum trainings, governmental and …
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Policing the Police: Conflict Theory and Police Violence in a Racialized Society
… allows for the first longitudinal analysis of police homicides as a social control outcome, which produces mixed findings on racial and economic threats. As in previous research, purely economic conflict predictions find little support while racial threat hypotheses are at least partially …
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'The Murderer State Will be Held to Account’ The Myth of the State and Its Violence
The legal aftermath of police violence often fails to respond to public demands of accountability. What we often witness is a two-pronged response and conclusion in the legal process; police violence is either understood as an exceptional event–i.e., the wrongdoings of a few bad cops–or such …
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Civil Unrest in the Untied State of America: Facing the Threat
… essay explores the purpose and function of the police in a modern state. It draws mainly from the ideas put forth by Walter Benjamin in his 1921 essay, Critique of Violence, and focuses exclusively on the events surrounding the Black Lives Matter movement. By applying political theory to …
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Youth Politics between Informality and State Violence in Nairobi, Kenya.
… economy and a very localized regime of state violence carried out by police. Situating youth politics in Kenya’s post-independence political history, it reveals that today’s regime of police violence against youth is in fact deeply constitutive of the Kenyan political fabric; moreover, every …
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Racial threat theory and Black Lives Matter: advancing our understanding of police killings of Black Americans and consequential civil resistance in contemporary America
… between the BLM movement, racial inequality, and police violence. Thus, this thesis aims to fill this gap by examining this relationship in two distinct ways. First, I examine various forms of political and economic threat to understand if, and how, these occurrences translate into physical …
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Running To and Away From Reflection Animated Auto-Ethnographic Video
… of Global Insurrections, Institutional Racism, Police Violence, Intergenerational family dysfunction, and treatment of people with Mental Health issues. I look at what I was forced to reflect on belonging, identity, safety, and trauma memories.
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The roots and influences of radical Black women in the 21st century
… the United States. Black women’s experiences of police violence at the intersections of gender, race, and class, particularly, have helped to create radical critiques of the system of white supremacy and police brutality. My thesis explores these experiences from the Civil Rights Movement to the …
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In Black and White: The American Media’s Construction of Police Killings
With several highly publicized police killings during the latter half of 2014, the issue of police violence has been re-ignited in the United States as emotionally charged a topic as ever, dividing Americans politically and socially and racially. From Eric Garner to Nicholas Robertson, the media …
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Policing Children in Street Situations in São Paulo, Brazil: Relations of Violence and Exclusion in the City
… and spatial nature of the relationship between police and children in street situations, investigating the ways these connections are shaped by everyday practices within participant’s life contexts. The fieldwork took place in the city centre of São Paulo city, Brazil, where the concentration of …
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The Kneel for Social Justice: Colin Kaepernick, Megan Rapinoe, and The Black Lives Matter Movement
… Football League preseason game to protest racist police violence. Shortly thereafter, Megan Rapinoe a female professional soccer player chose to support Kaepernick and knelt during the national anthem as well in protest. The media and public reaction towards the athletes was influenced by the …
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Relationships between Ethnicity, Attitudes toward Institutional Authority, and Hope in the African American Community
… great, particularly when the “authority” is a police officer in an urban community and the individual is African American. In African American communities in the U.S., interactions with authority figures begin in childhood. African Americans have a significantly greater negative attitude toward …
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The Justified Lawman: Cowboy Killings in the Modern Era
… does precisely this by normalizing police violence and the ways that the police underpin and reproduce profoundly disparate class and racialized social order. While in many ways a typical police procedural, <em>Justified</em> is a particularly unique and hence useful case for …
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As fronteiras de Nord-Pas-de-Calais: um estudo de campo sobre a securitização da imigração em França
… the mercy of the illegal immigration market and police violence
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Peace through the metaphor of war from police pacification to governance transformation in Rio de Janeiro
The history of the military police in Rio de Janeiro is a history of violence. Police violence peaked during the democratic era when they have killed more civilians annually than the total disappeared during the military dictatorship. Their violence unduly targets the urban poor, those living in …
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Legacies of violence : an in-depth analysis of two case studies based on interviews with perpetrators of a "necklace" murder and with Eugene De Kock
police and anny were deployed in the township. In addition, the commandos were mobilised to support the efforts to break the consumer boycott. Chidester (1991) describes the commandos as a system where civil and military functions came together "as white settlers formed a citizens anny to enforce …
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Innately American, Black America’s Inheritance: A Rhetorical Analysis of Black Death & Identity
… who was forcibly placed into the back of a police van and after riding in the van, sustained several injuries that resulted in his death. After the video footage was shown to the public, a tension bubbled in the air that cause what seemed like weeklong protests and riots. The event is now …
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Policing With A Double-Edged Sword: The Associations Between Neighborhood Deprivation, Coping & Substance Use Among Black & Latiné Families
… increasing daily stressors such as exposure to violence, racial discrimination, and negative perceptions of the police. Social constraints from quarantining and social distancing have weakened community relationships that previously provided relief from these stressors. Persistent poverty and …
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On the Stage of Change: A Dramaturgical Approach to Violence, Social Protests, and Policing Styles in the U.S.
… action, identifying factors influencing violence at social protests in the United States from 2006-2009. Conceiving of social protest as a form of political and symbolic action, I maintain that social actors and the qualities of their actions and immediate environment importantly …
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Community perceptions of South African Police Service responses to substance use and the impacts on health and well-being of community leaders and substance users in a peri-urban community in Cape Town.
… substance use and a history of violent police interventions in communities, reflect ineffective policing. Reports frequently highlight corrupt policing and police involvement in crime syndicates within communities, particularly in low-income areas. These challenges and dynamics …
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