RT Book
T1 Enforcing order: an ethnography of urban policing
A1 Fassin, Didier 1955-
A2 Fassin, Didier 1955-
LA German
LA English
PP Cambridge u.a.
PB Polity Press
YR 2013
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/741815427
AB "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."--Publisher's description
AB Prologue : interpellation -- Introduction : inquiry -- Situation -- Ordinary -- Interactions -- Violence -- Discrimination -- Politics -- Morality -- Conclusion : democracy -- Epilogue : time
NO Literaturverz. S. [266] - 274
NO Hier auch später erschienene unveränderte Nachdrucke
CN HV8203
SN 9780745664798
SN 9780745664804
K1 Police : France : Paris
K1 Law Enforcement : France : Paris
K1 Ethnic conflict : France : Paris
K1 Race discrimination : France : Paris
K1 Minority youth : France : Paris
K1 Youth and violence : France : Paris
K1 Police-community relations : France : Paris
K1 Frankreich
K1 Polizei
K1 Ethnische Beziehungen
K1 Jugend
K1 Paris : Vorort : Polizei : Einwanderer : Diskriminierung : Feldforschung : Unruhen