"Drawing on the language and texts of horror fiction, Travis Linnemann recasts the police not only as self-proclaimed "monster fighters" but as monsters themselves, a terrifying force set loose in the world. 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.""--
"Drawing on the language and texts of horror fiction, Travis Linnemann recasts the police not only as self-proclaimed "monster fighters" but as monsters themselves, a terrifying force set loose in the world. 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.""--
Travis Linnemann is associate professor of sociology at Kansas State University. He is author of Meth Wars: Police, Media, Power; coauthor of Media and Crime in the U.S.; and coeditor of Ghost Criminology: The Afterlife of Crime and Punishment and the journal Crime, Media, Culture.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Police Story, Horror Story 1. Bad Cops and True Detectives 2. The Police at the End of the World, or The Political Theology of the Thin Blue Line 3. RoboCop, or Modern Prometheus 4. Monsters Are Real 5. The Unthinkable World Acknowledgments Notes Index Notes Index
Introduction: Police Story, Horror Story 1. Bad Cops and True Detectives 2. The Police at the End of the World, or The Political Theology of the Thin Blue Line 3. RoboCop, or Modern Prometheus 4. Monsters Are Real 5. The Unthinkable World Acknowledgments Notes Index Notes Index
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