{"product_id":"political-policing-martha-k-huggins-9780822321729","title":"Political Policing: The United States and Latin America","description":"Reconstructing eighty years of history, \u003ci\u003ePolitical Policing\u003c\/i\u003e examines the nature and consequences of U.S. police training in Brazil and other Latin American countries. With data from a wide range of primary sources, including previously classified U.S. and Brazilian government documents, Martha K. Huggins uncovers how U.S. strategies to gain political control through police assistance--in the name of hemispheric and national security--has spawned torture, murder, and death squads in Latin America.\u003cp\u003eAfter a historical review of policing in the United States and Europe over the past century, Huggins reveals how the United States, in order to protect and strengthen its position in the world system, has used police assistance to establish intelligence and other social control infrastructures in foreign countries. The U.S.-encouraged centralization of Latin American internal security systems, Huggins claims, has led to the militarization of the police and, in turn, to an increase in state-sanctioned violence. Furthermore, \u003ci\u003ePolitical Policing\u003c\/i\u003e shows how a domestic police force--when trained by another government--can lose its power over legitimate crime as it becomes a tool for the international interests of the nation that trains it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePointing to U.S. responsibility for violations of human rights by foreign security forces, \u003ci\u003ePolitical Policing\u003c\/i\u003e will provoke discussion among those interested in international relations, criminal justice, human rights, and the sociology of policing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Martha K. Huggins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0822321726\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822321729\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/20\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.17h x 5.99w x 0.77d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Martha K. Huggins","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44522272489727,"sku":"9780822321729","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_258d2ce9-bb8a-436a-98d3-0c0424823672.jpg?v=1700156412","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/political-policing-martha-k-huggins-9780822321729","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}