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Enforcing Order - An Ethnography of Urban Policing (Hardcover)
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Enforcing Order - An Ethnography of Urban Policing (Hardcover)
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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. Over the course of 15 months,
at the time of the 2005 riots, Didier Fassin carried out an
ethnographic study in one of the largest precincts in the Paris
region, sharing the life of a police station and cruising with the
patrols, in particular the dreaded anti-crime squads. Far from the
imaginary worlds created by television series and action movies, he
uncovers the ordinary aspects of law enforcement, characterized by
inactivity and boredom, by eventless days and nights where minor
infractions give rise to spectacular displays of force and where
officers express doubts about the significance and value of their
own jobs. Describing the invisible manifestations of violence and
unrecognized forms of discrimination against minority youngsters,
undocumented immigrants and Roma people, he analyses the conditions
that make them possible and tolerable, including entrenched
policies of segregation and stigmatization, economic
marginalization and racial discrimination. Richly documented and
compellingly told, this unique account of contemporary urban
policing shows that, instead of enforcing the law, the police are
engaged in the task of enforcing an unequal social order in the
name of public security.
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