Cops on Campus: Rethinking Safety and Confronting Police Violence (Abolition: Emancipation from the Carceral) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0295752203 ISBN 13: 9780295752204

Publisher: University of Washington Press, 2024

Synopsis

Interrogates the relationship between higher education and the carceral state Over the last five years, headlines have thrust campus police departments from relative obscurity into the national spotlight. Campus constituents have called for campus police, as a tangible manifestation of the War on Crime within the sphere of higher education, to be disarmed, defunded, and abolished. Using a multidisciplinary approach that draws from the fields of history, American studies, ethnic studies, criminology, higher education, and sociology, Cops on Campus provides critical perspectives on the organization and social consequences of campus policing. Chapters uncover details of the structure and culture of university police—some of the best-funded and largest private police forces in the nation—and examine the institution in relation to racialized and gendered violence, racial profiling, and the surveillance of marginalized communities on and off campus. The volume also features interviews with students, staff, and faculty activists to showcase efforts to redefine and reimagine campus safety and explore alternatives for the future.

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About the Authors

Yalile Suriel is assistant professor of history at University of Minnesota.

Grace Watkins is a PhD candidate in history at University of Oxford.

Jude Paul Matias Dizon is assistant professor of higher education leadership at California State University, Stanislaus.

John Joseph Sloan III is a professor emeritus at University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is the co-author of The Dark Side of the Ivory Tower: Campus Crime as a Social Problem (Cambridge University Press, 3rd edition, 2013) and author of Criminal Justice Ethics: A Framework for Analysis (Oxford University Press, 2019).

Michael Hames-García is professor in the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Fugitive Thought: Prison Movements, Race, and the Meaning of Justice (University of Minnesota Press, 2004) and Identity Complex: Making the Case for Multiplicity (University of Minnesota Press, 2011), as well as co-editor of Gay Latino Studies (Duke, 2011), Identity Politics Reconsidered (Palgrave, 2006), and Reclaiming Identity (California, 2000).

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0295752203
• ISBN 13: 9780295752204
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 296
• Editor: Suriel Yalile, Watkins Grace, Dizon Jude Paul Matias, Sloan III John Joseph