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The Politics of Force - Media and the Construction of Police Brutality, Updated Edition (Hardcover)
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The Politics of Force - Media and the Construction of Police Brutality, Updated Edition (Hardcover)
Series: JOURNALISM AND POL COMMUN UNBOUND SERIES
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Published over twenty years ago, Regina G. Lawrence's The Politics
of Force was the first scholarly book to look at the way in which
media coverage of unexpected, dramatic events shaped public
consciousness about important social and political problems. At a
time when police brutality was rarely discussed in the news,
Lawrence examined police use of force in over 500 incidents, with
an in-depth look at the Rodney King case. In doing so, she showed
that when incidents of police brutality became news, they offered
one of the few real opportunities for marginalized voices and
activists to find a public platform and take on the powerful. In
the intervening years, the empirical and theoretical contributions
of The Politics of Force have become more significant, not only
because police brutality is back in the news, but because the media
system itself has changed. In this updated edition, Lawrence
contextualizes and extends these contributions, while including a
closer look at race and racial justice in incidents of police use
of force. Reflecting on the context in which the book was written-a
time when race and policing received limited coverage in the news
and in the field of political communication-Lawrence considers what
has changed in media studies since the year 2000, what things
haven't changed, and why. Moreover, Lawrence examines coverage of
more recent incidents of police violence and the ways in which the
voices of citizen activists are treated in the news today. In turn,
she addresses the important question of how defining political
problems through such events might or might not produce more
lasting policy change. Expanding on her landmark publication,
Lawrence provides an accessible update on news production dynamics
and police use of force for a new generation of scholars, students,
and activists.
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