Week 9

broken windows

What is broken windows policing? How has it been instrumentalized in racialized, gendered, and sexualized ways?
What are the ways in which policing, capitalism, racism, and patriarchy have collaborated? How does this relate to gentrification?
How is sex work criminalized? What is the difference between full decriminalization, partial decriminalization, and legalization?

Anne Gray Fischer, The Streets Belong to Us: Sex, Race, and Police Power from Segregation to Gentrification, “Boston: The Place Is Gone! Policing Black Women to Redevelop Downtown”
Juno Mac and Molly Smith, Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights, “Prison Nation: The United States, South Africa, and Kenya”
Andrea Ritchie, Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color, “Policing Gender Lines”
Andrea Ritchie, Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color, “Policing Paradigms and Criminalizing Webs”
Andrea Ritchie, Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color, “Policing Sex”
Brenden Beck, “The Role of Policing in Gentrification”
Monique Morris, Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools, “A Blues for Black Girls When the ‘Attitude’ is Enuf”
Heather Berg, Porn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism, “Maybe the State Should Pay: Sex, Work, and the State”
I. India Thusi, Policing Bodies: Law, Sex Work, and Desire in Johannesburg, “Policing and Sex Work in Historical Perspective”
Melinda Chateauvert, Sex Workers Unite: A History of the Movement from Stonewall to Slutwalk, “‘Fuck the Pigs’: Public Sex and Police Violence”
Marla Cruz, "A Stripper's Case for the Full Decriminalization of Sex Work"