Intelligent Control: Developments in Public Order Policing in Canada

by Willem de Lint and Alan Hall

Massive public protests have had a prominent presence at the turn of the millennium, with many thousands of protestors controlled by small, yet, increasingly specialized police forces. Investigating the ways in which police practices have evolved in relation to labour strikes and protests, Intelligent Control examines the means by which police forces have developed more coercive and consent-based approaches to regulating social unrest.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802038468
• ISBN13: 9780802038463
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 8.9"