Ethnography and the Evocative World of Policing

This book demonstrates the unique contribution police ethnographies make to our understanding of policing cultures and practices in a variety of international settings. It features contemporary examples of police ethnographies that demonstrate the continuing value of ethnographic work to our understanding of policing.

The first section of the book focuses on the police and Anglo-American policing. The second section is international in scope and seeks to enrich our understandings of policin...