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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 when confronted with mass activism. The book also offers readers the richness of experiential detail and engaging stories often lacking in studies of police practices and social movements. This book does not merely seek to explain the causal relationship between repression and mobilization. Rather, it shows how social control strategies act on the mind and body of protesters.

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• Acknowledgments(p. ix)
• 1 Protest, Control, and Policing(p. 1)
• 2 Perspectives on the Control of Dissent(p. 19)
• 3 The Anti-Globalization Movement(p. 35)
• 4 Managing and Regulating Protest: Social Control and the Law(p. 68)
• 5 This Is What Democracy Looks Like?: The Physical Control of Space(p. 92)
• 6 "Here Come the Anarchists": The Psychological Control of Space(p. 138)
• 7 Law Enforcement and Control(p. 165)
• Notes(p. 173)
• Bibliography(p. 177)
• Index(p. 189)

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CHOICE Review

Fernandez has written an important volume on the dynamic relationship between police and protesters in the contemporary antiglobalization movement. The author conducted his research through the ethnographic approach of immersing himself within the antiglobalization movement, attending and participating in protests in New York City; Calgary and Ottawa, Canada; Washington, DC; Cancun, Mexico; and Miami. He lays the theoretical groundwork of social control and protest and then methodically and efficiently illustrates how these processes are transforming today with new innovations and methods for protesters to organize and new strategies for law enforcement agencies to respond before, during, and after each protest. Fernandez emphasizes that possibilities for social control have increased with the 2001 US Patriot Act, but protesters are finding new and creative ways to deal with these tactics as well. While the book is labeled as relevant to sociology/criminology, it will also be of interest to other scholars, students, activists, law enforcement officers, and the general public. Summing Up: Recommended. All levels/libraries. K. Sorensen Bentley College

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Luis A. Fernandez is an assistant professor at Northern Arizona University