Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. INTRODUCTION. Ethnographying the Police 1
4. PART ONE. Position
5. ONE. Accountability: Ethnographic Engagement and the Ethics of the Police (United States) 23
6. TWO. Complicity: Becoming the Police (South Africa) 42
7. THREE. Intimacy: Personal Policing, Ethnographic Kinship, and Critical Empathy (India) 62
8. FOUR. Affect: The Virtual Force of Policing (Taiwan) 91
9. PART TWO. Observation
10. FIVE. Predicament: Interpreting Police Violence (Mozambique) 113
11. SIX. Morality: Understanding Police Training on Human Rights (Turkey) 139
12. SEVEN. Experience: Being Policed as a Condition of Life (Chile) 162
13. EIGHT. Aspiration: Hoping for a Public Policing (Bolivia) 184
14. PART THREE. Description
15. NINE. Sense and Sensibility: Crafting Tales about the Police (Thailand) 207
16. TEN. Detention: Police Discretion Revisited (Portugal) 225
17. ELEVEN. Alibi: The Extralegal Force Embedded in the Law (United States) 248
18. TWELVE. Boredom: Accounting for the Ordinary in the Work of Policing (France) 269
19. Index 293