Writing the World of Policing

The Difference Ethnography Makes

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2017
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-49764-8 (ISBN)

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As policing has recently become a major topic of public debate, it is 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 continents. How, they ask, can ethnography illuminate the work and role of the police in society? Are there important aspects of policing that are not captured through its usual approach through interviews and statistics? And how does the study of law enforcement enlighten the practice of ethnography in general? Can such inquiry into policing enrich our understanding of the epistemological and ethical challenges of this method? Beyond these questions of crucial interest for both criminology and the social sciences, Writing the World of Policing provides a timely discussion of one of the most problematic institutions in contemporary societies.

Didier Fassin is the James D. Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and Director of Studies at theecole des Hautesetudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris.

Erscheinungsdatum	29.01.2018
Sprache	englisch
Maße	16 x 23 mm
Gewicht	425 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-226-49764-X / 022649764X
ISBN-13	978-0-226-49764-8 / 9780226497648
Zustand	Neuware