Pacifying the Homeland

Intelligence Fusion and Mass Supervision
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-520-29974-0
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

The United States has poured over a billion dollars into a network of interagency intelligence centers called “fusion centers.” These centers were ostensibly set up to prevent terrorism, but politicians, the press, and policy advocates have criticized them for failing on this account. So why do these security systems persist? Pacifying the Homeland travels inside the secret world of intelligence fusion, looks beyond the apparent failure of fusion centers, and reveals a broader shift away from mass incarceration and toward a more surveillance- and police-intensive system of social regulation. 

Provided with unprecedented access to domestic intelligence centers, Brendan McQuade uncovers how the institutionalization of intelligence fusion enables decarceration without fully addressing the underlying social problems at the root of mass incarceration. The result is a startling analysis that contributes to the debates on surveillance, mass incarceration, and policing and challenges readers to see surveillance, policing, mass incarceration, and the security state in an entirely new light.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McQuade, Brendan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Innen-, Bildungs- und Bevölkerungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Ethische Themen & Debatten
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Technische Informatik Computersicherheit
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Prologue: Policing Camden’s crisis

1. Connecting the dots beyond counterterrorism and seeing past organizational failure
2. The rise and present demise of the workfare-carceral state
3. The institutionalization of intelligence fusion
4. Policing decarceration
5. Beyond cointelpro
6. Pacifying poverty
Conclusion: The Camden model and the Chicago
challenge

Appendix: Research and the World of Official Secrets
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Brendan McQuade is Assistant Professor of Criminology at the University of Southern Maine.