Policing Dissent: Social Control and the Anti-Globalization Movement

by Luis Argeo Fernandez

In November 1999, fifty-thousand anti-globalization activists converged on Seattle to shut down the World Trade Organization's Ministerial Meeting. Using innovative and network-based strategies, the protesters left police flummoxed, desperately searching for ways to control the emerging anti-corporate globalization movement. Faced with these network-based tactics, law enforcement agencies transformed their policing and social control mechanisms to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813542146
• ISBN13: 9780813542140
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.6"