Writing the world of policing : the difference ethnography makes /

As policing has recently become a major topic of public debate, it was also a growing area of ethnographic research. Writing the World of Policing brings together an international roster of scholars who have conducted fieldwork studies of law enforcement in disadvantaged urban neighborhoods on five...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fassin, Didier (Editor)
Corporate Authors: De Gruyter, Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2017]
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017
Chicago, IL : 2017
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: ethnographying the police / Didier Fassin
  • Accountability: ethnographic engagement and the ethics of the police (United States) / Steve Herbert
  • Complicity: becoming the police (South Africa) / Julia Hornberger
  • Intimacy: personal policing, ethnographic kinship, and critical empathy (India) / Beatrice Jauregui
  • Affect: the virtual force of policing (Taiwan) / Jeffrey T. Martin
  • Predicament: interpreting police violence (Mozambique) / Helene Maria Kyed
  • Morality: understanding police training on human rights (Turkey) / Elif Babül
  • Experience: being policed as a condition of life (Chile) / Clara Han
  • Aspiration: hoping for a public policing (Bolivia) / Daniel M. Goldstein
  • Sense and sensibility: crafting tales about the police (Thailand) / Duncan McCargo
  • Detention: police discretion revisited (Portugal) / Susana Durão
  • Alibi: the extralegal force embedded in the law (United States) / Laurence Ralph
  • Boredom: accounting for the ordinary in the work of policing (France) / Didier Fassin
  • Introduction: ethnographying the police / Didier Fassin
  • Position. Accountability: ethnographic engagement and the ethics of the police (United States) / Steve Herbert ; Complicity: becoming the police (South Africa) / Julia Hornberger ; Intimacy: personal policing, ethnographic kinship, and critical empathy (India) / Beatrice Jauregui ; Affect: the virtual force of policing (Taiwan) / Jeffrey T. Martin
  • Observation. Predicament: interpreting police violence (Mozambique) / Helene Maria Kyed ; Morality: understanding police training on human rights (Turkey) / Elif Babul ; Experience: being policed as a condition of life (Chile) / Clara Han ; Aspiration: hoping for a public policing (Bolivia) / Daniel M. Goldstein
  • Description. Sense and sensibility: crafting tales about the police (Thailand) / Duncan McCargo ; Detention: police discretion revisited (Portugal) / Susana Durao ; Alibi: the extralegal force embedded in the law (United States) / Laurence Ralph ; Boredom: accounting for the ordinary in the work of policing (France) / Didier Fassin
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • INTRODUCTION. Ethnographying the Police / Fassin, Didier
  • PART ONE. Position
  • ONE. Accountability: Ethnographic Engagement and the Ethics of the Police (United States) / Herbert, Steve
  • TWO. Complicity: Becoming the Police (South Africa) / Hornberger, Julia
  • THREE. Intimacy: Personal Policing, Ethnographic Kinship, and Critical Empathy (India) / Jauregui, Beatrice
  • FOUR. Affect: The Virtual Force of Policing (Taiwan) / Martin, Jeffrey T.
  • PART TWO. Observation
  • FIVE. Predicament: Interpreting Police Violence (Mozambique) / Kyed, Helene Maria
  • SIX. Morality: Understanding Police Training on Human Rights (Turkey) / Babül, Elif
  • SEVEN. Experience: Being Policed as a Condition of Life (Chile) / Han, Clara
  • EIGHT. Aspiration: Hoping for a Public Policing (Bolivia) / Goldstein, Daniel M.
  • PART THREE. Description
  • NINE. Sense and Sensibility: Crafting Tales about the Police (Thailand) / Mccargo, Duncan
  • TEN. Detention: Police Discretion Revisited (Portugal) / Durão, Susana
  • ELEVEN. Alibi: The Extralegal Force Embedded in the Law (United States) / Ralph, Laurence
  • TWELVE. Boredom: Accounting for the Ordinary in the Work of Policing (France) / Fassin, Didier
  • Index