Department(s)

Social Science

Document Type

Article

Version Deposited

Accepted manuscript

Publication Date

2019

Keywords

law and order; broken windows; stop and frisk; mass incarceration; race; technocracy; Hans-Georg Gadamer; Martin Heidegger; James Q. Wilson

Abstract

Contemporary American policing practices are marked by increasingly top-down, racialized, militarized, and pseudo-scientific features. Social scientists have played a central role in creating this political situation: social-scientific advocates of “law and order,” far from providing a value-neutral description of social reality, appear instead to have contributed to the creation of a peculiarly modern form of power.

Publication Title

Critical Review

Volume

31

Issue

2

First Page

160

Last Page

178

DOI

10.1080/08913811.2019.1689677

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