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Cops, crime and capitalism : the law and order agenda in Canada / Todd Gordon.
- Title
- Cops, crime and capitalism : the law and order agenda in Canada / Todd Gordon.
- Author
- Gordon, Todd, 1973-
- Publication
- Halifax, N.S. : Fernwood Pub., c2006.
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- Description
- 171 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Framed within a Marxist class analysis that highlights the way in which state power and capitalist social relations are racialized and gendered, Gordon's study locates law-and-order policing as a central moment of capitalist state power. He argues that, as with policing historically, crime-fighting is not the principal aim of contemporary law-and-order policing. Its aim is the production of a new social order based on the severely diminished expectations of working people. Crime fighting matters only insofar as it helps in this process. Law-and-order policing is not really a fight against rampant and escalating crime; rather it is aimed at forcefully limiting any possibilities the able-bodied poor may try to pursue to avoid the worst forms of wage labour." "Gordon says that to properly understand the law-and-order agenda, we must situate it within the broader context of the political and economic changes associated with neoliberalism. Law-and-order policing is not an isolated state policy endeavour or policing practice. It is a central feature of a state power that, far from retreating with the demise of the Keynsian welfare state, is actively facilitating the establishment of a new - neoliberal - capitalist order premised on the restructuring of social relations. Law-and-order policing is very much about the role of an aggressive state and its relationship to the class struggle lying at the heart of contemporary Canadian society. Book jacket."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Police-community relations > Canada
- Poor > Canada
- Discrimination in law enforcement > Canada
- Social control > Canada
- Capitalism > Canada
- Neoliberalism > Canada
- Police > Canada
- Pauvres > Canada
- Discrimination dans l'application des lois > Canada
- Contrôle social > Canada
- Capitalisme > Canada
- Néo-libéralisme > Canada
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-164) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- A critical look at panoptic theories of policing -- Producing capitalist order : police, class, race and gender -- Contemporary law-and-order policies : policing, class struggle and neoliberal restructuring -- Panhandling bylaws and the safe streets act : the return of vagrancy law -- Criminalization, race and neoliberal order : policing immigrant communities.
- ISBN
- 1552661857 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2006389673
- OCLC
- 65423773
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library