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The Streets Belong to Us - Sex, Race, and Police Power from Segregation to Gentrification (Hardcover)
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The Streets Belong to Us - Sex, Race, and Police Power from Segregation to Gentrification (Hardcover)
Series: Justice, Power and Politics
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Police power was built on women's bodies. Men, especially Black
men, often stand in as the ultimate symbol of the mass
incarceration crisis in the United States. Women are treated as
marginal, if not overlooked altogether, in histories of the
criminal legal system. In this history-the first on the
relationship between women and police in the modern United
States-Anne Gray Fischer narrates how sexual policing fueled a
dramatic expansion of police power. The enormous discretionary
power that police officers wield to surveil, target, and arrest
anyone they deem suspicious was tested, legitimized, and legalized
through the policing of women's sexuality and right to move freely
through city streets. Throughout the twentieth century, police
departments achieved a stunning consolidation of urban authority
through the strategic discretionary enforcement of morals laws,
including disorderly conduct, vagrancy, and other
prostitution-related misdemeanors. Between Prohibition in the 1920s
and the rise of "broken windows" policing in the 1980s, police
targeted white and Black women in distinct but interconnected ways.
These tactics reveal the centrality of racist and sexist myths to
the justification and deployment of state power. Sexual policing
did not just enhance police power. It also transformed cities from
segregated sites of "urban vice" into the gentrified sites of Black
displacement and banishment we live in today.
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