Policing the State, Second Edition: Democratic Reflections on Police Power Gone Awry, in Memory of Kathryn Johnston (1914-2006) - Hardcover

Ruprecht, Louis A

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1498231128 ISBN 13: 9781498231121

Publisher: Wipf and Stock, 2015

Synopsis

The manner in which Kathryn Johnston died so tragically at the hands of Atlanta narcotics police on the evening of November 21, 2006, anticipates and informs a number of very contemporary--and extremely volatile--issues that have become closely associated with the name of Ferguson, Missouri. As the "Black Lives Matter" movement makes clear, the issues center primarily around the relationship between racial identity and lethal police violence in the United States today. In this Second Edition of Policing the State, Louis A. Ruprecht Jr. attempts to situate both "Ferguson" and "Black Lives Matter" within a relatively narrow historical frame of the two years since Policing the State was first published, as well as a longer history of the emergence of a more violent policing regime and an ever-more intensely carceral society that came on the scene quite suddenly in the United States in the mid-to-late 1980s.

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About the Author

Louis A. Ruprecht Jr. is the inaugural holder of the William M. Suttles Chair in Religious Studies at Georgia State University, where he also serves as Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies. His work centers on the creative adaptation of classical concepts, philosophies, and literatures in subsequent cultural complexes. He is especially interested in the classical roots of modern ethics and politics, psychology and sexuality, athleticism and agonism, as well as art and religion.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1498231128
• ISBN 13: 9781498231121
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 154