In: Critical issues in crime and society
In: Critical Issues in Crime and Society Ser
In November 1999, fifty-thousand anti-globalization activists converged on Seattle to shut down the World Trade Organization's Ministerial Meeting. Using innovative and network-based strategies, the protesters left police flummoxed, desperately searching for ways to control the emerging anti-corporate globalization movement. Faced with these network-based tactics, law enforcement agencies transformed their policing and social control mechanisms to manage this new threat. Policing Dissent provides a firsthand account of the changing nature of control efforts employed by law enforcement agencies
In: Critical issues in crime and society
Policing dissent -- Perspectives on the control of dissent -- The anti-globalization movement -- Managing and regulating protest -- This is what democracy looks like? -- Here come the anarchists -- Law enforcement and control
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Rutgers University Press
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