The Streets Belong to Us: Sex, Race, and Police Power from Segregation to Gentrification

by Anne Gray Fischer

Police power was built on women's bodies.

Men, especially Black men, often stand in as the ultimate symbol of the mass incarceration crisis in the United States. Women are treated as marginal, if not overlooked altogether, in histories of the criminal legal system. In The Streets Belong to Us--a searing history of women and police in the modern United States--Anne Gray Fischer narrates how sexual policing fueled a dramatic expansion...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469665042
• ISBN13: 9781469665047
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.5"