The Horror of Police

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Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction: Police Story, Horror Story -- Chapter 1: Bad Cops and True Detectives -- Chapter 2: The Police at the End of the World, or The Political Theology of the Thin Blue Line -- Chapter 3: RoboCop, or Modern Prometheus -- Chapter 4: Mo...

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1. VerfasserIn: Linnemann, Travis 1974- (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Minneapolis University of Minnesota Press 2022
In:Jahr: 2022
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Schlagwörter:
POLICE brutality > United States
Discrimination in law enforcement > United States
Police Corruption > United States
Horror in mass media
Electronic books
USA > Law and order > Polizei > Gewalttätigkeit > Brutalität
Parallele Ausgabe:Nicht-Elektronisch
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Zusammenfassung:Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction: Police Story, Horror Story -- Chapter 1: Bad Cops and True Detectives -- Chapter 2: The Police at the End of the World, or The Political Theology of the Thin Blue Line -- Chapter 3: RoboCop, or Modern Prometheus -- Chapter 4: Monsters Are Real -- Chapter 5: The Unthinkable World -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author.
"Drawing on the language and texts of horror fiction, Travis Linnemann recasts the police not only as self-proclaimed "monster fighters" but as monsters themselves, a terrifying force set loose in the world. The Horror of Police shows that police violence is not a deviation but rather a deliberate and permanent fixture of U.S. "law and order.""--
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Physische Details:1 online resource (289 pages)
ISBN:9781452967622