Event

Suzanne Scoggins will discuss her recent book, Policing China: Street-Level Cops in the Shadow of Protest. Assessing the problems of resources, enforcement, and oversight that beset the police in China, Scoggins finds that the central government and the Ministry of Public Security have prioritized "stability maintenance" (weiwen) to the detriment of nearly every other aspect of policing. Using interviews with police officers up and down the hierarchy, as well as station data, news reports, and social media postings, the book probes challenges faced by ground-level officers and their superiors at the Ministry of Public Security as they attempt to do their jobs in the face of funding limitations, reform challenges, and structural issues. Policing China concludes that despite the social control exerted by China's powerful bureaucracies, security failures at the street level have undermined Chinese citizens' trust in the legitimacy of the police and the capabilities of the state.

This event will be held on-site in the CSCC conference room, but with a Zoom option.

To attend in person:

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You must be a Penn Card holder. Please indicate in the RSVP link that you plan to attend in person. Under the university’s current COVID-19 protocols, we must limit on-site attendance at our events to Penn card holders and, to comply with contact-tracing requirements, we must have a record of who attends our in-person events. Therefore, we are asking that you RSVP is you plan to attend in person. If you do not RSVP and still wish to attend, you are still welcome to show up, but will need to sign in on arrival. Although social distancing is not required under current university rules, we will be limiting the number of people in our conference room to somewhat less than our past highest turnout events.

To participate by Zoom:

We understand that some of you will be unable or uncomfortable attending in person, but wish to participate. We will send you a Zoom link if you register: https://upenn.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIldOmqrj4rHN1cHIP7K8bYjwfZ064k1a1e