Tryon P. Woods
Pandemic Police Power, Public Health and the Abolition Question
- Springer International Publishing
- 2022
- Gebunden
- 292 Seiten
- ISBN 9783030930301
This book critically explores how police power manifested beyond criminal law into the field of public health during the pandemic. Whilst people were engaged with anti-police violence protests, particularly in the US, they were being policed openly and notoriously by the government and medical science in the public health arena. The book explores how public health policing might be an abuse of constitutional power and encourages the abolition question to be applied consistently to the state¿s discourse in the area of public health, as black people the world over continue to bear a disproportionate cost burden for public health policies. The chapters explore contemporary policing in
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