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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...
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Imprint:
United States : Other Press, 2022
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (112.0 pages, 78617.0 Kbytes)
Audience:
General/trade
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Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781635422511
Language:
English
BRN:
434563
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