Criminalizing the Casbahs

"Beginning with the surge of North African immigration after World War I and ending with the first battles of the Algerian War of Independence, this book examines how both national policy and local concerns shaped colonial policing. Violence has marked police practice since the earliest iterations of organized policing. Yet if violence was ubiquitous, French police officers' use of violence on the bodies of North Africans developed in relation to both imperial discourses of North Africans' racial inferiority, and individual relationships of power and opposition"--