Writing the world of policing : the difference ethnography makes / edited by Didier Fassin.

Contributor Fassin, Didier, editor.

ImprintChicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.

Descriptionvi, 301 pages ; 24 cm

Note:Introduction: ethnographying the police -- Part I. 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 -- Part II. Observation -- 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 -- Part III. Description -- 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.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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