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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745664806
• ISBN13: 9780745664804
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"