RT Book
T1 The vigilant citizen: everyday policing and insecurity in Miami
T2 De Gruyter eBook-Paket Rechtswissenschaften
A1 Jeursen, Thijs Jonathan
LA English
PP New York, NY
PB New York University Press
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1833328035
AB How the problematic behavior of private citizens—and not just the police force itself—contributes to the perpetuation of police brutality and institutional racism“Warning: Neighborhood Watch Program in Force. If I don’t call the police, my neighbor will!”Signs like this can be found affixed to telephone poles on streets throughout the US, warning trespassers that the community is an active participant in its own policing efforts. Thijs Jeursen calls this phenomenon, in which individuals take on the responsibility of defending themselves and share with the police the duty to mitigate everyday insecurity, “vigilant citizenship.”Drawing on eleven months of fieldwork in Miami and sharing the stories and experiences of police officers, private security guards, neighborhood watch groups, civil society organizations, and a broad range of residents and activists, Jeursen uses the lens of vigilant citizenship to extend the analysis of police brutality beyond police encounters, focusing on the often blurred boundaries between policing actors and policed citizens and highlighting the many ways in which policing produces and perpetuates inequality and injustice. As a central premise in everyday policing, vigilant citizenship frames racist and violent policing as matters of personal blame and individual guilt, ultimately downplaying the realities of how systemically race operates in policing and US society more broadly. The Vigilant Citizen illustrates how a focus on individualized responsibility for security exacerbates and legitimizes existing inequalities, a situation that must be addressed to end institutionalized racism in politics and the justice system
CN HV8148.M43
SN 9781479816569
K1 Police : Florida : Miami
K1 Police-community relations : Florida : Miami
K1 LAW / Public
K1 Cameras
K1 Citizens
K1 Citizenship
K1 Crime
K1 Culpability
K1 Distrust
K1 Duty
K1 Everyday
K1 Guns
K1 Inequality
K1 Legal
K1 Legality
K1 Methodology
K1 Miami
K1 National
K1 Neighborhoods
K1 Police
K1 Policing
K1 Private
K1 Public
K1 Racism
K1 Responsibilities
K1 Rights
K1 Surveillance
K1 Technologies
K1 Urban
K1 Vigilant
K1 Visual
K1 Miami, Fla. : Feldforschung : Polizei : Bewachungsgewerbe : Bürgerwehr : Nachbarschaft : Gewalttätigkeit : Diskriminierung : Rassismus
DO 10.18574/nyu/9781479816569.001.0001