Policing the City [electronic resource] : An Ethno-graphic
Didier Fassin2022
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Adapted from the landmark essay Enforcing Order, this striking graphic novel
offers an accessible inside look at policing and how it leads to discrimination
and violence.
What we know about the forces of law and order often comes from tragic episodes
that make the headlines, or from sensationalized versions for film and
television. These gripping accounts obscure two crucial aspects of police work:
the tedium of everyday patrols under constant pressure to meet quotas, and the
banality of racial discrimination and ordinary violence.
Around the time of the 2005 French riots, anthropologist and
sociologist Didier Fassin spent fifteen months observing up close the daily life
of an anticrime squad in one of the largest precincts in the Paris region. His
unprecedented study, which sparked intense discussion about policing in the
largely working-class, immigrant suburbs, remains acutely relevant in light of
all-too-common incidents of police brutality against minorities...
Main title:
Policing the City [electronic resource] : An Ethno-graphic / Didier Fassin
Author:
Didier Fassin, Author
Imprint:
United States : Other Press, 2022
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (112.0 pages, 78617.0 Kbytes)
Audience:
General/trade
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781635422511
Language:
English
BRN:
434563
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