Policing and the poetics of everyday life
By: Jonathan M. Wender.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9780252033711
Subjects: Police; Interpersonal relations -- Philosophy; Law enforcement -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The bureaucratic paradox; title: Division I; title: Approaching human beings as problems; title: The common roots of bureaucratic policing and mainstream social science; title: The approach of a phenomenological aesthetics of encounter; title: Division II; title: Domestic violence encounters : the eye of the painter and the eye of the police; title: The policing of childhood : encounters with juveniles; title: The poetry of policing : encounters from the drug war; title: Encountering the drama of mental and emotional crisis; title: Policing death : the problematization of mortality; title: Policing and the poetics of everyday life; title: Postscript: Imagining otherwise.