Police, Power, and the Production of Racial Boundaries / / Ana Muñiz.

Based on five years of ethnography, archival research, census data analysis, and interviews, Police, Power, and the Production of Racial Boundaries reveals how the LAPD, city prosecutors, and business owners struggled to control who should be considered "dangerous" and how they should be p...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Critical Issues in Crime and Society
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Physical Description:1 online resource (154 p.) :; 9 photographs, 5 figures, 2 ta
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1. Race and Place in Cadillac- Corning
  • Chapter 2. A Neighborhood Is Born: Housing Development, Racial Change, and Boundary Building
  • Chapter 3. Maintaining Racial Boundaries: Criminalization, Neighborhood Context, and the Origins of Gang Injunctions
  • Chapter 4. The Chaos of Upstanding Citizens: Disorderly Community Partners and Broken Windows Policing
  • Chapter 5. "We Don't Need No Gang Injunction! We Just Out Here Tryin' to Function!"
  • Chapter 6. Conclusion
  • References
  • Index
  • About the Author