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- Title
Unravelling the "Thin Blue Line": Policing as an Engine of Inequality.
- Authors
Boyce, Geoff; Massaro, Vanessa; Spess, Laura
- Abstract
This paper argues that policing be understood as a creative social force that reproduces important dimensions of earlier iterations of the colour line. The paper advances this argument by integrating findings from two distinct research projects: the first on the household financial losses that follow arrest by immigration officials in Tucson, AZ; and the second focusing on the everyday costs of policing and carceral supervision absorbed by residents of Philadelphia, PA. Together, data from these sites illuminate how exposure to policing exhausts emotional and material resources from expansive family and community networks of care and support. To theorise the connection between financial dispossession and the dispossession of future opportunity, we draw on a heuristic reading of the "thin blue line" symbol. We conclude by suggesting a need for closer attention to how contemporary state interventions drive patterns of dispossession and vulnerability that accumulate across various scales, sites, rhythms, and collectivities.
- Subjects
TUCSON (Ariz.); PHILADELPHIA (Pa.); POLICE; HEALTH care networks; SOCIAL forces; INTERVENTION (Federal government)
- Publication
Antipode, 2023, Vol 55, Issue 5, p1538
- ISSN
0066-4812
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/anti.12928