Complexity and irony in policing and protesting: the World Trade Organization in Seattle

In: Social justice: a journal of crime, conflict and world order, Band 27, Heft 2, S. 212-236

Abstract

Analyzes political demonstrations against the WTO in Seattle, Washington, Nov. 29-Dec. 3, 1999, focusing on actions whose outcomes contradicted participants' intent; suggestions for actions by police and demonstrators that could have been taken to reduce violence and constitutional violations. Included in a collection of articles under the overall title "Criminal justice and globalization at the new millennium".