The Politics of Force by Regina G. Lawrence, Allissa V. Richa... - 9780197616550

The Politics of Force by Regina G. Lawrence, Allissa V. Richa... - 9780197616550

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The Politics of ForceMedia and the Construction of Police Brutality, Updated Edition\nAuthor(s): Regina G. Lawrence, Allissa V. Richardson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Oxford University Press Inc, United States\nImprint: Oxford University Press Inc\nISBN-13: 9780197616550, 978-0197616550\nSynopsis\nPublished 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.\n\nIn the intervening years, the empirical and theoret.

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