Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-264) and index.
Introduction -- 1. Conceptual theoretical framework and the literature on the neoliberal penal state -- 2. Neoliberal ideologies of crime in urban Turkey -- 3. The crisis and reinvention of the police -- 4. Giuliani in Izmir : restructuring of public order policing and criminalizing the "Target Populations" -- 5. Policing a Kurdish shantytown -- Conclusion