Against the Social Harms of Policing
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In Against the Social Harms of Policing author Kevin Walby examines how police abolition is an ethic for diminishing reliance on police by using community development to reduce the conflicts and harms that exist in our neighbourhoods. In the chapter, Walby discusses topics including injustices created by police (including violence, racism, wrongful arrest, and corruption, to name only a few), state power, and the four arguments for police abolition: (i) Social Movement Mobilizations; (ii) Police Budgets and Fiscal Drain; (iii) Disproportionate Police Growth; and (iv) Erosion of Community.
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Kevin Walby
Kevin Walby is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, University of Winnipeg. He is co-editor of Brokering Access: Power, Politics, and Freedom of Information Process in Canada with Mike Larsen (2012, UBC Press). He is co-author with Randy K. Lippert of Municipal Corporate Security in International Context (2015, Routledge). He has co-edited with Lippert Policing Cities: Urban Securitization and Regulation in the 21st Century (2013, Routledge) and Corporate Securityin the 21st Century: Theory and Practice in International Perspective (2014, Palgrave). He is co-editor of Access to Information and Social Justice with Jamie Brownlee (2015, ARP Books). He is co-editor of Corporatizing Canada: Making Business Out of Public Service with Brownlee and Chris Hurl (2018, Between the Lines). He is co-editor of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons.