Writing the World of Policing: The Difference Ethnography Makes

Writing the World of Policing: The Difference Ethnography Makes
ISBN-10
022649764X
ISBN-13
9780226497648
Category
Social Science
Pages
308
Language
English
Published
2017-10-25
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Author
Didier Fassin

Description

In his edited collection Writing the World of Policing: The Difference Ethnography Makes, renowned anthropologist-sociologist Didier Fassin brings together some of the greatest minds in the social sciences to reflect on the question of urban policing in disadvantaged neighborhoods worldwide. The aim of the volume is both to show how ethnography can illuminate the role of policing in society as well as to show how an attention to law enforcement can alter and provoke the practice of ethnography itself. Spanning five continents and tackling such concepts as accountability, complicity, morality, detention, alibi, and others, this volume is bound to become one of the major statements on a topic of increasing interest. Structured around three sections--position, observation, and description--the book mirrors the process of the ethnographic method itself, taking us deep within each local context it investigates while never losing sight of the global relevance of crime, law, and the exercise of power inherent to both.

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