@inbook{5e9c0d4f19714b8284f894f338b68d02,
title = "Protesting police",
abstract = "We offer an anthropological response to criminologists{\textquoteright} call for a penal theory of police, with a specific focus on the public condonation of police punishment. We support such a penal theory but criticize the criminologist{\textquoteright}s explanation of the relative quiescence of “the public” in the face of police punishment. We do so by (1) centralizing anti-police protest instead of acceptance of police punishment; (2) raising the epistemological question “how do we know protest?” and (3) addressing the importance of studying “hashtag activism” in anti-police protest. Central to our thesis is Scott{\textquoteright}s theory of hidden transcripts and the infrapolitics of resistance. ",
author = "Paul Mutsaers and {van Nuenen}, Tom",
year = "2018",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781138919655",
series = "Frontiers of Criminal Justice",
publisher = "Routledge",
pages = "153--171",
editor = "Kevin Karpiak and William Garriott",
booktitle = "The Anthropology of Police",
address = "United Kingdom",
}