Violence Work: State Power and the Limits of Police

by Micol Seigel

Book Overview

In Violence Work Micol Seigel offers a new theorization of the quintessential incarnation of state power: the police. Foregrounding the interdependence of policing, the state, and global capital, Seigel redefines policing as "violence work," showing how it is shaped by its role of channeling state violence. She traces this dynamic by examining the formation, demise, and aftermath of the U.S. State Department's Office of Public Safety (OPS),...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478000171
• ISBN13: 9781478000174
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"