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Policing and Contemporary Governance

Policing and Contemporary Governance The Anthropology of Police in Practice

1st Edition 2013

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Publisher's Synopsis

What is it that police and policing actually do? What are the effects? How are these effects mediated and experienced by different people at different times and in different contexts? This volume draws attention to the centrality of police and policing to the project of governance and the experience of being human in the contemporary world.

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Book information

ISBN: 9781137498168
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Pub date:
Edition: 1st Edition 2013
DEWEY: 301
Language: English
Number of pages: 280
Weight: -1g
Height: 235mm
Width: 155mm