Uniform Feelings By Jessi Lee Jackson 9780472055258 (Paperback)

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Criminal investigation & detec

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University of michigan press

Uniform Feelings : The University of Michigan Press : 9780472055258 : 0472055259 : 31 May 2022 : In Uniform Feelings, American studies scholar and abolitionist psychotherapist Jessi Lee Jackson reads policing as a set of emotional and relational practices in order to shed light on the persistence of police violence.  Jackson argues that psychological investments in U.S. police power emerge at various sites: her counseling room, manuals for addressing bias, museum displays, mortality statistics, and memorial walls honoring fallen officers.  Drawing on queer, feminist, anticolonial, and Black engagements with psychoanalysis to think through U.S. policing?and bringing together a mix of clinical case studies, autotheory, and ethnographic research?the book moves from the individual to the institutional. Jackson begins with her work as a psychotherapist working across the spectrum of relationships to policing, and then turns to interrogate carceral psychology?the involvement of her professio

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