Pacifying the Homeland: Intelligence Fusion and Mass Supervision - Couverture rigide

McQuade, Brendan

 
9780520299740: Pacifying the Homeland: Intelligence Fusion and Mass Supervision

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l?auteur

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

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ISBN 10 :  0520299752 ISBN 13 :  9780520299757
Editeur : University of California Press, 2019
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