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Recent Publications:
Book Review: The Policing Web. By
Jean-Paul Brodeur. Social Forces. 90 (4). June 2012
Chang, Paul Y. and Alex S. Vitale. "Repressive Coverage in an Authoritarian Context: Threat, Weakness and Legitimacy
in South Korea's Democracy Movement." Mobilization. Forthcoming.
Alex Vitale, Kim, H., and Choi, N. "A Case Study on the Korean National Police's G20 Protest Policing," The
Journal of Police Policies, Vol. 25 No. 2, pp. 27-53. December, 2011 (in Korean).
"NYPD and OWS: A Clash of Styles" in Occupy!:
Scenes from Occupied America. New York: Verso Books. 2011.
“The
Politics of Protest Policing.” In Sociologists in Action: Sociology, Social Change,
and Social Action. Kathleen Korgen et.al. eds. Newbury Park, CA: Pine
Forge Press. 2010.
Alex S. Vitale "Policing
Protests in New York City," Urbanization,
Policing, and Security: Global Perspectives. Taylor and Francis. 2010.
Alex S. Vitale "The
Safer Cities Initiative and the Removal of the Homeless: Reducing Crime or Promoting Gentrification on Los Angeles' Skid Row," Criminology and Public Policy,
Volume 9, Issue 4 November, 2010.
Recent Media Coverage:
"Equating Stop-and-Frisk with Crime." Crain's New York Business. August 9, 2012.
"NATO March Turns Violent in Chicago." The Wall Street Journal. May 21, 2012.
"Academia Occupied by Occupy." The New York Times. May 1, 2012.
"Watchin' the Detectives--And the Rest of the Officers, Too." The Brooklyn Rail. May, 2012
"Fear of the First Amendment." The Brooklyn Rail. February 2012.
"Protests Put Cities on Alert." Wall Street Journal. January 11, 2012.
"The Growing Militarization of the Police." The Stream-Al Jazeera. December 22, 2011.
Op-Ed: "Riot Gear's Evolution." New York Times. December 4, 2011. with Chi Birmingham.
"Shifts In Police Tactics To Handle Crowds." Talk of the Nation: NPR. November 29, 2011.
"Containing Outrage: How police Power Tames the Occupy Movement." Boston Review. November 23, 2011
"Robocops vs. the occupiers: Police nationwide are relying
on the misguided "Miami Model" to respond to peaceful mass dissent." Salon. November 23, 2011.
"From Cairo to California, Controlling Crowds With Chemicals." New York Times: The Lede. November 21, 2011.
"Why I Feel Bad for the Pepper-Spraying Policeman, Lt. John Pike." The Atlantic. November 19, 2011.
"Police Tactics Questioned in Oakland Protest." New York Times: The Lede. October 27, 2011.
Op-Ed: "Disorderly Conduct? How Protesting Became a Crime in NYC." WNET Metro Focus. October 26, 2011.
"Every Action Produces Overreaction" New York Times. September, 30, 2011.
"Left Behind: In the Wake of 9/11, American policy has run roughshod over civil
liberitarians, anti-war activists -- and public opinion itself." Pittsburgh City Paper. September 7, 2011.
“Police crowd-control tactics have changed dramatically since Kent State protests” Cleveland Plain Dealer,
May 3, 2010.
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