Policing Dissent: Social Control and the Anti-Globalization Movement (Critical Issues in Crime and Society)

207 Pages·2008·1.54 MB·English

by  Luis Alberto Fernandez

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Policing Dissent
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Critical Issues in Crime and Society
Raymond J. Michalowski, Series Editor
Critical Issues in Crime and Society is oriented toward critical
analysis of contemporary problems in crime and justice. The
series is open to a broad range of topics including specific types
of crime, wrongful behavior by economically or politically
powerful actors,controversies over justice system practices,and
issues related to the intersection of identity, crime, and justice.
It is committed to offering thoughtful works that will be acces-
sible to scholars and professional criminologists, general read-
ers, and students.
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Raymond J. Michalowski and Ronald C. Kramer, eds.,
State-Corporate Crime: Wrongdoing at the Intersection of
Business and Government
Susan L. Miller, Victims as Offenders: The Paradox of Women’s
Violence in Relationships
Susan F. Sharp, Hidden Victims: The Effects of the Death Penalty
on Families of the Accused
Robert H. Tillman and Michael L. Indergaard, Pump and
Dump: The Rancid Rules of the New Economy
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Michael Welch, Scapegoats of September 11th: Hate Crimes and
State Crimes in the War on Terror
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Policing Dissent
h
Social Control
and the
Anti-Globalization
Movement
Luis A. Fernandez
Rutgers University Press
New Brunswick,New Jersey,and London
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Fernandez,Luis A.,1969–
Policing dissent :social control and the anti-globalization move-
ment / Luis A.Fernandez.
p. cm.– (Critical issues in crime and society)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8135-4214-0 (hardcover :alk.paper)
ISBN 978-0-8135-4215-7 (pbk.:alk.paper)
1. Law enforcement—United States. 2. Social control—United
States. 3. Protest movements—United States. 4. Anti-globalization
movement—United States. I. Title.
HV8138.F454 2008
363.32’30973—dc22 2007019967
A British Cataloging-in-Publication record for this book is available
from the British Library.
Copyright © 2008 by Luis Fernandez
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Manufactured in the United States of America
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I dedicate my book to Mare, my life partner, and to all
who speak truth to power through their daily actions.
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Contents
Acknowledgments ix
1 Protest, Control, and Policing 1
2 Perspectives on the Control of Dissent 19
3 The Anti-Globalization Movement 35
4 Managing and Regulating Protest:
Social Control and the Law 68
5 This Is What Democracy Looks Like?:
The Physical Control of Space 92
6 “Here Come the Anarchists”:
The Psychological Control of Space 138
7 Law Enforcement and Control 165
Notes 173
Bibliography 177
Index 189
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Acknowledgments
This book could never have been completed without the
guidance,love,and encouragement of my friends and colleagues.
Thank you all for participating in this collective process. I want
to thank Mare Schumacher,my life partner,for her unwavering
support. Her willingness to tolerate seemingly endless hours at
the computer obsessing over a particular turn of phrase is deeply
appreciated. Her edits, insights, and recommendations for this
book were priceless.There is not enough I can do to thank her.
I am also indebted to Cecilia Menjivar. Her subtle sugges-
tions at the start of my research made all the difference. Thank
you, Randy Hanson, for lifting the curtain and showing me the
wizard, reminding me that there is much beyond academia. To
Beth Swadener, thank you for being an inspiration and a men-
tor on how to be a true scholar/activist. Also, thanks to the
Society for the Study of Social Problems (and all its members)
for financially supporting my research and providing an atmos-
phere that makes critical scholarship possible. Finally, thanks to
Ray Michalowski and Adi Hovav for making editorial sugges-
tions that greatly improved the manuscript.
A special thanks goes to Sue Hilderbrand,who ran with me
in movement and stood by me when my fears got the best of
me. Thanks also to Amory Starr for supporting my work. Her
mentoring has been valuable. Likewise, Emily Gaarder and
Randall Amster were wonderful sounding boards, providing
insightful personal and intellectual feedback. In addition, my
parents, Luis and Hada Luz Fernandez, played a central role
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