Alex S Vitale
Biographic Data
| ID | 3686285 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alex S Vitale |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alex S |
| FAMILY NAME | Vitale |
| SIGNATURE | VITALE A S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brooklyn College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6405-3337 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 135 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Sociology of Policing
Toward an Abolitionist Epistemology
The theoretical underpinnings of police and penal abolition can provide important epistemological guidance to social science researchers. A review of the conceptual frames of abolition and the social science theories underlying it provides a basis for an abolitionist epistemology that incorporates insights from queer theory, critical race theory, feminism, historical materialism, and postcolonial theory. An exposition of existing studies that con…
Urban Radicalism
Jammed Up: Bad Cops, Police Misconduct, and the New York City Police Department
Repressive Coverage in an Authoritarian Context: Threat, Weakness, and Legitimacy in South Korea's Democracy Movement
While most studies of the repression-mobilization relationship have focused on the impact of the former on the latter, recent work has shown that characteristics of protest can influence state repression strategies. This article corroborates recent work on the repression of social movements and shows that both weak and threatening attributes of protest events contribute to the "repressive coverage"—the likelihood of repression—of social movements…
The Safer Cities Initiative and the removal of the homeless: Reducing crime or promoting gentrification on Los Angeles' Skid Row
City of disorder: How the quality of life campaign transformed New York politics
The Command and Control and Miami Models at the 2004 Republican National Convention: New Forms of Policing Protests
With the increase in large contentious demonstrations in the last decade has come a variety of new efforts to explain the tactics used by police. Based on an analysis of how the New York Police Department (NYPD) handled six demonstrations at the 2004 Republican National Convention (RNC), this article argues that the more repressive Miami model of policing has not become the universal norm in policing large protests. Each of the six protests was d…
Reclaiming the Streets: Surveillance, Social Control and the City
Innovation and Institutionalization: Factors in the Development of “Quality of Life” Policing in New York City
Several scholars have described the development of new policing strategies in New York City over the last ten years that emphasize the elimination of public disorder, consistent with the "broken windows" theory, and sometimes referred to as "quality of life" policing. These works, however, have not dealt with the process of police innovation and in particular have paid little attention to the role of community-based actors in the process. This ar…
From Negotiated Management to Command and Control: How the New York Police Department Polices Protests
Beginning with the World Trade Organization protests in Seattle in 1999, American police have been confronted by numerous large demonstrations focusing mostly on international trade issues and the war in Iraq. In most instances, both demonstrators and police have avoided large-scale confrontations. In some demonstrations, however, high levels of police force have been used against both violent and passive crowds. As the number of these protests c…
From Coney Island to Las Vegas in the Urban Imaginary: Discursive Practices of Growth and Decline
A discursive analysis of cultural images, social practices, and space adds a new level of social critique to the usual explanations of urban growth and decline. Instead of focusing on either "objective" or "subjective" factors, a discursive analysis assumes a coherence between social and spatial arrangements that is derived in and through cultural meanings attached to specific places and has a material effect on their growth and decline. Both the…
From Negotiated Management to Command and Control: How the New York Police Department Polices Protests
Beginning with the World Trade Organization protests in Seattle in 1999, American police have been confronted by numerous large demonstrations focusing mostly on international trade issues and the war in Iraq. In most instances, both demonstrators and police have avoided large-scale confrontations. In some demonstrations, however, high levels of police force have been used against both violent and passive crowds. As the number of these protests c…
From Coney Island to Las Vegas in the Urban Imaginary: Discursive Practices of Growth and Decline
A discursive analysis of cultural images, social practices, and space adds a new level of social critique to the usual explanations of urban growth and decline. Instead of focusing on either "objective" or "subjective" factors, a discursive analysis assumes a coherence between social and spatial arrangements that is derived in and through cultural meanings attached to specific places and has a material effect on their growth and decline. Both the…
The Command and Control and Miami Models at the 2004 Republican National Convention: New Forms of Policing Protests
With the increase in large contentious demonstrations in the last decade has come a variety of new efforts to explain the tactics used by police. Based on an analysis of how the New York Police Department (NYPD) handled six demonstrations at the 2004 Republican National Convention (RNC), this article argues that the more repressive Miami model of policing has not become the universal norm in policing large protests. Each of the six protests was d…
Repressive Coverage in an Authoritarian Context: Threat, Weakness, and Legitimacy in South Korea's Democracy Movement
While most studies of the repression-mobilization relationship have focused on the impact of the former on the latter, recent work has shown that characteristics of protest can influence state repression strategies. This article corroborates recent work on the repression of social movements and shows that both weak and threatening attributes of protest events contribute to the "repressive coverage"—the likelihood of repression—of social movements…
Innovation and Institutionalization: Factors in the Development of “Quality of Life” Policing in New York City
Several scholars have described the development of new policing strategies in New York City over the last ten years that emphasize the elimination of public disorder, consistent with the "broken windows" theory, and sometimes referred to as "quality of life" policing. These works, however, have not dealt with the process of police innovation and in particular have paid little attention to the role of community-based actors in the process. This ar…
The Safer Cities Initiative and the removal of the homeless: Reducing crime or promoting gentrification on Los Angeles' Skid Row
Toward an Abolitionist Epistemology
The theoretical underpinnings of police and penal abolition can provide important epistemological guidance to social science researchers. A review of the conceptual frames of abolition and the social science theories underlying it provides a basis for an abolitionist epistemology that incorporates insights from queer theory, critical race theory, feminism, historical materialism, and postcolonial theory. An exposition of existing studies that con…
Jammed Up: Bad Cops, Police Misconduct, and the New York City Police Department
The Sociology of Policing
From Coney Island to Las Vegas in the Urban Imaginary: Discursive Practices of Growth and Decline
A discursive analysis of cultural images, social practices, and space adds a new level of social critique to the usual explanations of urban growth and decline. Instead of focusing on either "objective" or "subjective" factors, a discursive analysis assumes a coherence between social and spatial arrangements that is derived in and through cultural meanings attached to specific places and has a material effect on their growth and decline. Both the…
Innovation and Institutionalization: Factors in the Development of “Quality of Life” Policing in New York City
Several scholars have described the development of new policing strategies in New York City over the last ten years that emphasize the elimination of public disorder, consistent with the "broken windows" theory, and sometimes referred to as "quality of life" policing. These works, however, have not dealt with the process of police innovation and in particular have paid little attention to the role of community-based actors in the process. This ar…
From Negotiated Management to Command and Control: How the New York Police Department Polices Protests
Beginning with the World Trade Organization protests in Seattle in 1999, American police have been confronted by numerous large demonstrations focusing mostly on international trade issues and the war in Iraq. In most instances, both demonstrators and police have avoided large-scale confrontations. In some demonstrations, however, high levels of police force have been used against both violent and passive crowds. As the number of these protests c…
Reclaiming the Streets: Surveillance, Social Control and the City
The Command and Control and Miami Models at the 2004 Republican National Convention: New Forms of Policing Protests
With the increase in large contentious demonstrations in the last decade has come a variety of new efforts to explain the tactics used by police. Based on an analysis of how the New York Police Department (NYPD) handled six demonstrations at the 2004 Republican National Convention (RNC), this article argues that the more repressive Miami model of policing has not become the universal norm in policing large protests. Each of the six protests was d…
City of disorder: How the quality of life campaign transformed New York politics
The Safer Cities Initiative and the removal of the homeless: Reducing crime or promoting gentrification on Los Angeles' Skid Row
Repressive Coverage in an Authoritarian Context: Threat, Weakness, and Legitimacy in South Korea's Democracy Movement
While most studies of the repression-mobilization relationship have focused on the impact of the former on the latter, recent work has shown that characteristics of protest can influence state repression strategies. This article corroborates recent work on the repression of social movements and shows that both weak and threatening attributes of protest events contribute to the "repressive coverage"—the likelihood of repression—of social movements…
Urban Radicalism
Jammed Up: Bad Cops, Police Misconduct, and the New York City Police Department
Toward an Abolitionist Epistemology
The theoretical underpinnings of police and penal abolition can provide important epistemological guidance to social science researchers. A review of the conceptual frames of abolition and the social science theories underlying it provides a basis for an abolitionist epistemology that incorporates insights from queer theory, critical race theory, feminism, historical materialism, and postcolonial theory. An exposition of existing studies that con…
The Sociology of Policing
Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Criminology (7 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Policing Practices and Perceptions (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Public Administration (3 works) · Public Administration (3 works)