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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808818803321

Autore

Linnemann Travis

Titolo

The horror of police / / Travis Linnemann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, MN : , : University of Minnesota Press, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

9781452967622

1452967628 (electronic bk.)

9781517905927

1517905923

9781517905910

1517905915

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 280 pages)

Disciplina

363.20973

Soggetti

Police brutality - United States

Discrimination in law enforcement - United States

Police corruption - United States

Horror in mass media

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction: Police Story, Horror Story -- Chapter 1: Bad Cops and True Detectives -- Chapter 2: The Police at the End of the World, or The Political Theology of the Thin Blue Line -- Chapter 3: RoboCop, or Modern Prometheus -- Chapter 4: Monsters Are Real -- Chapter 5: The Unthinkable World -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author.

Sommario/riassunto

"Drawing on the language and texts of horror fiction, Travis Linnemann recasts the police not only as self-proclaimed "monster fighters" but as monsters themselves, a terrifying force set loose in the world. The Horror of Police shows that police violence is not a deviation but rather a deliberate and permanent fixture of U.S. "law and order.'"--