Policing life and death : race, violence, and resistance in Puerto Rico /

Policing life and death : race, violence, and resistance in Puerto Rico /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	LeBrón, Marisol, author.
Imprint:	Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]
Description:	1 online resource (xv, 301 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Discrimination in law enforcement -- Puerto Rico -- History -- 20th century. Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Puerto Rico -- History -- 20th century. Police-community relations -- Puerto Rico -- History -- 20th century. Discrimination in criminal justice administration. Discrimination in law enforcement. Police-community relations. Puerto Rico. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13541333

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ISBN:	9780520971677 0520971671 9780520300163 9780520300170 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 17, 2019).
Summary:	"Policing Life and Death : Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico examines how policing reinforces social inequality along lines of race, class, gender, and sexuality and analyzes the ways that marginalized populations push against logics and practices of criminalization. Marisol LeBrón traces the rise of punitive governance in Puerto Rico over the course of the twentieth century to the present moment. She argues that Puerto Rican elites and policy makers have turned to policing as a way of reorganizing and strengthening the state in response to deep and ongoing structural crises stemming from the island's incorporation into the United States as a colonial territory. At the same time, LeBrón provides powerful examples of how Puerto Ricans negotiate and resist their subjection to increased levels of segregation, criminalization, discrimination, and violence. Puerto Ricans are actively rejecting punitive solutions and working toward alternative understandings of justice, safety, and accountability"--Provided by publisher.
Other form:	Print version: LeBrón, Marisol. Policing life and death. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019] 9780520300163
Standard no.:	15978231

Table of Contents:

Introduction : they don't care if we die
A war against the victims
Colonial projects
Underground
The continued promise of punishment
Policing solidarity
#ImperfectVictims
Security from below
Postscript : broken windows and future horizons after the storm.