| Writing the World of Policing: The Difference Ethnography Makes Contributor(s): Fassin, Didier (Editor) |
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ISBN: 022649750X ISBN-13: 9780226497501 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $98.01 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Research - Social Science | Methodology - Political Science | Law Enforcement |
| Dewey: 363.2 |
| LCCN: 2017005978 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 9.1" (1.20 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Urban |
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| Publisher Description: 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 continents. How, they ask, can ethnography illuminate the role of the police in society? Are there important aspects of policing that are not captured through interviews and statistics? And how can the study of law enforcement shed light on the practice of ethnography? What might studying policing teach us about the epistemological and ethical challenges of participant observation? Beyond these questions of crucial interest for criminology and, more generally, the social sciences, Writing the World of Policing provides a timely discussion of one of the most problematic institutions in contemporary society. |
Contributor Bio(s): Fassin, Didier: - Didier Fassin is the James D. Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. |