Policing and Contemporary Governance

1. Introduction
William Garriott

Part I. Policing the Everyday

2. Invading the Favela: Echoes of Police Practices among Brazil’s Urban Poor
Benjamin Penglase

3. Policing Methamphetamine: Police Power and the War on Drugs in a Rural US Community
William Garriott

Part II. Police Violence

4. Adjusting La Police: The Use of Distance in the Calibration of Legitimate Violence among the Police Nationale
Kevin G. Karpiak

5. The Paradox of Police Violence in Democratic Brazil
Teresa P. R. Caldeira

6. Dirty Anthropology: Epistemologies of Violence and Ethical Entanglements in Police Ethnography
Beatrice Jauregui

Part III. Police Culture

7. Police as Linking Principle: Rethinking Police Culture in Contemporary Taiwan
Jeffrey T. Martin

8. Thai Police in Refractive Cultural Practice
Eric J. Haanstad

9. Policing Private Property against Poverty in Metropolitan Manila
Philip C. Parnell

10. Interpol and the Emergence of Global Policing
Meg Stalcup

11. Afterword
Joseph Masco

Nyckelord: Social Sciences, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Political Sociology, Sociology, general, Social Anthropology, Policing