Policing and Society: Berkeley Homicide Controversy

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Berkeley Homicide Controversy

Katie sent in this article about the controversy regarding Occupy Berkeley and the homicide in the hills over the past week: Blame for homicide passed between police, protesters."

Thanks for keeping us informed, Katie!

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About the Course

This course examines the American social institution of urban policing. It explores the social, economic and cultural forces that pull policing in the direction of state legal authority and power as well as those that are a counter-weight to the concentration of policing powers in the state. Special attention is given to how policing shapes and is shaped by the urban landscape, legal to cultural.

Topics include exploration of: what is policing and who are the police; growing reliance on surveillance, technologies of social control and the privatization of policing, including corporate policing; the forces that shape why policing agencies and personnel do what they do; changing personnel and organizational styles of urban law enforcement; law enforcement abuse of state authority, including issues of racial profiling; policing urban youth in schools and on the streets; and post-9/11 policing.

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Berkeley Homicide Controversy

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