Enforcing Order: An Ethnography of Urban Policing

By Didier Fassin

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745664792
• ISBN13: 9780745664798
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 287 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"