Enforcing Order An Ethnography of Urban Policing

Name: Enforcing Order An Ethnography of Urban Policing
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ISBN: 9780745664804

ISBN-10: 0745664806

ISBN-13: 9780745664804

Edition: 2013

Authors: Didier Fassin

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Most incidents of urban unrest in recent decades – including the riots in France, Britain and other Western countries – have followed lethal interactions between the youth and the police. Usually these take place in disadvantaged neighborhoods composed of working–class families of immigrant origin or belonging to ethnic minorities. These tragic events have received a great deal of media coverage, but we know very little about the everyday activities of urban policing that lie behind them. Over the course of 15 months, at the time of the 2005 riots, Didier Fassin carried out an ethnographic study in one of the largest precincts in the Paris region, sharing the life of a police station and…

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List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 9/6/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Didier Fassinis the James D. Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is the author ofWhen Bodies Remember: Experiences of AIDS in South Africa(UC Press).



Preface to the English edition


Acknowledgments


Preliminary remarks


Prologue - Interpellation


Introduction - Inquiry



Situation



Ordinary



Interactions



Violence



Discrimination



Politics



Morality


Conclusion - Democracy


Epilogue - Time


Notes


Bibliography


Index