1st Edition

The Anthropology of Police

Edited By Kevin Karpiak, William Garriott Copyright 2018
248 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

248 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

248 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

What are the potential contributions of anthropology to the study of police? Even beyond the methodological particularities and geographic breadth of cultural anthropology, there are a set of conceptual and analytical traditions that have much to bring to broader scholarship in police studies. Including original and international contributions from both senior and emerging scholars, this... Read more

1. Introduction: Disciplines, Fields and Problems (Kevin G. Karpiak and William Garriott)

Section I: Legacies and Lessons

2. An Anthropology of Policing (Peter K. Manning)

3. Police Culture: What It Is, What It Does, and What We Should Do With It (Jeffrey T. Martin)

4. Policing Shit; or, Whatever Happened to the Medical Police? (Matthew Wolf-Meyer)

5. Practice in the Anthropology of Policing: Building the Base of Practice (Jennie M. Simpson)

6. Anthropological Lessons for Police (Avram Bornstein)

Section II: Publics and Relations

7. "The Boys with Blue Eyes": An Anthropology of a Secret Police (Katherine Verdery)

8. Policed Bodies and Subjectivities: Football Fans at the Gezi Uprising in Turkey (Yağmur Nuhrat)

9. Police, Hospitality, and Mega-Event Security in Rio de Janeiro (Erika Robb Larkins)

10. Protesting Police (Paul Mutsaers and Tom van Nuenen)

Section III: Esprit de Corps

11. A Moral Interpretation of Police Deviance (Didier Fassin)

12. The Black Box of Police Torture (Laurence Ralph)

13. The Good Police Offer: Ambivalent Intimacies with the State in the Greek Asylum Procedure (Heath Cabot)

Biography

Kevin G. Karpiak is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology at Eastern Michigan University. His work focuses on policing as a useful nexus for exploring questions in anthropology, politics, and ethics. He serves as the General Editor of the group academic blog Anthropoliteia and co-editor of the Cornell University Press monograph series Police/Worlds: Studies in Security, Crime and Governance.

William Garriott is Associate Professor in the Law, Politics, and Society program at Drake University. The focus of his current research and teaching is the relationship between law, crime, and criminal justice, broadly conceived, with specific interest in drugs, addiction, policing, and governance.