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  title info:
    title: Police reform--an obituary
  name:
    name part: Pino, Nathan
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2026
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 262 pages ; 20 cm.
  abstract: The fight against police brutality and impunity is a global struggle. This book argues that police reform efforts around the world should be extirpated and replaced with locally developed and led non-carceral alternatives that can produce community safety, social justice and quality of life over the long-term from a decolonial, feminist, anti-capitalist and abolitionist perspective. The book introduces the concept of artificial insecurity, defined as a condition in societies under racial capitalism whereby the social structures that promote safe, secure communities are weakened or removed and the survival strategies of individuals are criminalized, coercing people to seek protection from policing and other carceral institutions that are undemocratic, violent and fail to provide security, thus maintaining coloniality and inequality. Academics and other reformers should refuse to engage further in police reform efforts, and should instead seek ruptural social changes democratically based on an uncompromising abolitionist politics that produces genuine community safety and decolonizes economies in the face of hostility from politicians, police and academic allies and collaborators with police. The book, instead, provides alternative policies and practices to reduce crime and promote community safety that do not rely on criminal justice systems. Since the book concerns current, important debates regarding police defunding and abolition, it will be a useful resource for students and scholars of criminology, policymakers, local stakeholders, nongovernmental organizations and activists involved in various social justice movements around the world.
  table of contents: Introduction -- The Tyranny of Policing and the Imprudence of Police Reform -- Artificial Insecurity: Neocolonialism, Neoliberal Racial Capitalism, and Policing -- From Death to Transfiguration -- Obstacles to Transformative Change -- An Obituary.
  note: Nathan W. Pino.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Police reform
  subject:
    topic: Police misconduct
  subject:
    topic: Alternatives to imprisonment
  classification: HV7935 .P56 2026
  classification: 363.2
  identifier: 9781032546438
  identifier: 1032546433
  identifier: 9781032546445
  identifier: 1032546441
  identifier: 9781003425946
  identifier: 9781040491836
  identifier: 9781040740910
  identifier: 104074091X
  identifier: 1040491839
  identifier: 2025051380
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 260219
    record change date: 20260722132404.1
    record identifier: in00005695881