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In The Horror of Police, Travis Linnemann asks why, with this open record of violence and corruption, policing remains for so many the best, perhaps only means of security in an insecure world.   Drawing on the language and texts of horror fiction, Linnemann recasts the police not only as self-proclaimed “monster fighters” but as monsters themselves, a terrifying force set loose in the world. Purposefully misreading a collection of everyday police stories (TV cop dramas, detective fiction, news media accounts, the direct words of police) not as morality tales of innocence avenged and order restored but as horror, Linnemann reveals the monstrous violence at the heart of liberal social order.   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.” Only when viewed through the refracted motif of horror stories, Linnemann argues, can we begin to reckon the limits of police and imagine a world without them.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49744518447377,"sku":"NGR9781517905927","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1517905923.jpg?v=1764842286"},{"product_id":"meth-wars-book-travis-linnemann-9781479800025","title":"Meth Wars","description":"How the War on Drugs is maintained through racism,authority and public opinion.   From the hit television series Breaking Bad, to daily news reports, anti-drug advertising campaigns and highly publicized world-wide hunts for \"narcoterrorists\" such as Joaquin \"El Chapo\" Guzman, the drug, methamphetamine occupies a unique and important space in the public's imagination. In Meth Wars, Travis Linnemann situates the \"meth epidemic\" within the broader culture and politics of drug control and mass incarceration.  Linnemann draws together a range of examples and critical interdisciplinary scholarship to show how methamphetamine, and the drug war more generally, are part of a larger governing strategy that animates the politics of fear and insecurity and links seemingly unrelated concerns such as environmental dangers, the politics of immigration and national security, policing tactics, and terrorism. The author's unique analysis presents a compelling case for how the supposed \"meth epidemic\" allows politicians, small town police and government counter-narcotics agents to engage in a singular policing project in service to the broader economic and geostrategic interests of the United States.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49914735427857,"sku":"CIN1479800023G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52140097405201,"sku":"NLS9781479800025","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1479800023.jpg?v=1763220937"},{"product_id":"meth-wars-book-travis-linnemann-9781479878697","title":"Meth Wars","description":"How the War on Drugs is maintained through racism,authority and public opinion.   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