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4 - Police Abolitionist Discourse? Why It Has Been Missing (and Why It Matters)

from Part II - Do We Need Public Police?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2019

Tamara Rice Lave
Affiliation:
University of Miami School of Law
Eric J. Miller
Affiliation:
Loyola School of Law, Los Angeles
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[T]here is no penitentiary system without general surveillance; no carceral confinement without control of the population.

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Print publication year: 2019

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