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Crisis and Control: The Militarization of Protest Policing

by Lesley J. Wood

Between the Lines. 2014. 205p. bibliog. index. ISBN 9780745333892. $99; ebk. ISBN 9781783712113.

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Wood (sociology, York Univ., Toronto) looks at police reactions to protests and gatherings in the United States and Canada, including the Occupy Wall Street movement and the protests at the Toronto G20 summit. The book questions the overpolicing of protests and warns of the effects on democracy.

Reviewed by Joan Pedzich , Jul 01, 2016

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