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Title: Policing the Pandemic: How public health becomes Public order
Author: LAMBROS FATSIS/LAMB MELAYNA
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/12/2021
Imprint: THE POLICY PRESS
Price: $23.00
Publishing status: Active
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the inadequacies of the state's response to public health and public order issues through deeply flawed legislation.
Written in the context of the #Blacklivesmatter protests, this book explores why law enforcement responses to a public health emergency are prioritised over welfare provision and what this tells us about the state's criminal justice institutions.
Informing scholarly, civic and activist thinking on the political nature of policing, it reveals how increasing police powers disproportionately affects black people and suggests alternative ways of designing public safety beyond a law enforcement context.
'Makes a compelling case for a critical assessment of what the COVID-19 pandemic can tell us about policing, health and governance all of the time. Lively, topical and precisely what we need.' Peter Squires, University of Brighton
ISBN: 9781447361077
Dimension: 203mm X 127mm