Police, Power, and the Production of Racial Boundaries

Based on five years of ethnography, archival research, census data analysis, and interviews,Police, Power, and the Production of Racial Boundariesreveals how the LAPD, city prosecutors, community groups, and business owners struggled to control who should be considered "dangerous" and how...

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Main Author:	Ana Muniz, Muniz
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	United States Rutgers University Press 2015
Edition:	1
Series:	Critical Issues in Crime and Society
Subjects:	aggressive policing Ana Muñiz archival research blacks broken windows business owners California census data analysis city prosecutors civil rights community activism Community policing community relations court decisions criminal justice reform criminal justice system criminalization criminalization of poverty criminalization process deviants Discrimination in criminal justice Discrimination in law enforcement ethnography gang injunction Gangs grassroots challenges institutional racism interviews LAPD Latinos law enforcement loitering Los Angeles minor infractions Police policing strategies political construction Political Science POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights power public policy racial boundaries racial discrimination racial disparities racial profiling racialization racialized neighborhoods racialized policing racist effects repressive practices restraining order social control social justice SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations SOCIAL SCIENCE / General Social sciences sociologist Sociology urban policing urban sociology violent neighborhood zero tolerance census data analysis criminalization of poverty LAPD minor infractions blacks restraining order interviews urban sociology criminal justice system racial boundaries criminal justice reform civil rights gangs policing strategies criminalization process ethnography repressive practices sociologist archival research institutional racism business owners social control community policing public policy gang injunction city prosecutors community relations racialized neighborhoods Latinos violent neighborhood social justice racial discrimination Ana Muñiz racial disparities loitering criminalization power political construction court decisions law enforcement racial profiling racist effects grassroots challenges community activism Police broken windows aggressive policing racialization deviants racialized policing urban policing zero tolerance
ISBN:	9780813569772, 081356977X, 9780813569765, 0813569761
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Summary:	Based on five years of ethnography, archival research, census data analysis, and interviews,Police, Power, and the Production of Racial Boundariesreveals how the LAPD, city prosecutors, community groups, and business owners struggled to control who should be considered "dangerous" and how they should be policed in Los Angeles. Sociologist Ana Muñiz shows how these influential groups used policies and everyday procedures to criminalize behaviors commonly associated with blacks and Latinos and to promote an exceedingly aggressive form of policing. Muñiz illuminates the degree to which the definitions of "gangs" and "deviants" are politically constructed labels born of public policy and court decisions, offering an innovative look at the process of criminalization and underscoring the ways in which a politically powerful coalition can define deviant behavior. As she does so, Muñiz also highlights the various grassroots challenges to such policies and the efforts to call attention to their racist effects. Muñiz describes the fight over two very different methods of policing: community policing (in which the police and the community work together) and the "broken windows" or "zero tolerance" approach (which aggressively polices minor infractions-such as loitering-to deter more serious crime).Police, Power, and the Production of Racial Boundariesalso explores the history of one specific neighborhood, Cadillac-Corning became viewed by outsiders as a "violent neighborhood" and how the city's first gang injunction-a restraining order aimed at alleged gang members-solidified this negative image. As a result, Muñiz shows, Cadillac-Corning, to explain how the area became a test site for repressive practices that eventually spread to the rest of the city.
ISBN:	9780813569772 081356977X 9780813569765 0813569761
DOI:	10.36019/9780813569772