I am the Law: How Judge Dredd Predicted Our Future av Michael Molcher

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He is the law - and you better believe it!<BR><BR>Judge, jury and executioner, Judge Dredd is the brutal comic book cop policing the chaotic future urban jungle of Mega-City One, created by John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra and launching in the pages of <i>2000 AD</i> in 1977.<BR><BR>But what began as a sci-fi action comic quickly evolved into a searing satire on hardline, militarised policing and ‘law and order’ politics, its endless inventiveness and ironic humour acting as a prophetic warning about our world today - and with important lessons for our future.<BR><BR>Blending comic book history with contemporary radical theories on policing, <i>I Am The Law</i> takes key<i> Dredd</i> stories from the last 45 years and demonstrates how they provide a unique wake up call about our gradual, and not so gradual, slide towards authoritarian policing.<BR><BR>From the politicisation of policing to ‘zero tolerance’, from violent suppression of protest to the rise of the s