Policing Protest

“This book affected me like a good shot of whiskey. Complex, bracing, needed.” - Lester K. Spence, author of Knocking the Hustle: Against the Neoliberal Turn in Black Politics

“Although of late a lot has been written on policing, nothing that I have read takes up this important topic of protest policing, let alone gives it such a far-reaching and well-supported reading. The policing of protest turns out to be a distinctive but truly revealing piece of contemporary policing, one that no one has covered as comprehensively as Paul A. Passavant does in this text.” - Jonathan Simon, author of Mass Incarceration on Trial: A Remarkable Court Decision and the Future of Prisons in America

“A masterful book filled with keen insights about policing protests using grounded data and compelling stories. It’s easily the best analysis I’ve read on this topic and sets a new standard for theoretical integration, clarity, and real-world relevance.” - Peter B. Kraska, author of Militarizing the American Criminal Justice System: The Changing Roles of the Armed Forces and the Police

"Policing Protest is a compelling read for scholars and graduate students interested in the police state and its institutional developments in law, political culture, and urban political economy." - Shannon Woods, E3W Review of Books

"Policing Protest is an exceptionally good book—persuasively argued, meticulously researched, and stunning in its explanatory power." - Erin R. Pineda, Perspectives on Politics

"Passavant’s Policing Protest is a book that eerily puts recent events into a new perspective and adds to our understanding of how the police are engaging with our right to protest." - Tyler Dadge, Ethnic and Racial Studies

"Policing Protest is a profound, groundbreaking, and urgent work that should be read by students of US politics, criminal justice, democratic theory, race and racism, and constitutional law." - Joseph Lowndes, Theory & Event

"Skillfully connects seemingly disconnected trends and features of contemporary life to construct a cohesive and novel understanding of the legal, political, and economic predicament in which we find ourselves. The book is at once sweeping in its implications, nuanced in its arguments, and detailed in the evidence it brings to bear on these questions. It will be of great interest to scholars of social movements, policing, and law as well as a broader audience of those concerned about protecting the freedom to engage in dissent." - Heidi Reynolds-Stentson, Criminal Law & Criminal Justice Book Reviews