Anthropology of Police

Kevin G. Karpiak is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology at Eastern Michigan University. His work focuses on policing as a useful nexus for exploring questions in anthropology, politics, and ethics. He serves as the General Editor of the group academic blog Anthropoliteia and co-editor of the Cornell University Press monograph series Police/Worlds: Studies in Security, Crime and Governance.William Garriott is Associate Professor in the Law, Politics, and Society program at Drake University. The focus of his current research and teaching is the relationship between law, crime, and criminal justice, broadly conceived, with specific interest in drugs, addiction, policing, and governance.

• 1. Introduction to The Anthropology of Police: Disciplines, Fields and Problems, Kevin G. Karpiak and William Garriott, Section I: Legacies & Lessons. 2. An Anthropology of Policing, Peter K. Manning, 3. Police Culture: What It Is, What It Does, and What We Should Do With It, Jeffrey T. Martin, 4. Policing Shit, or, Whatever Happened to the Medical Police? Matthew Wolf-Meyer, 5. Practice in the Anthropology of Policing: Building the Base of Practice, Jennie Simpson, 6. Anthropological Lessons for Police, Avram Bornstein, Section II: Publics & Relations. 7. "The Boys with Blue Eyes": An Anthropology of a Secret Police, Katherine Verdery, 8. Policed Bodies and Subjectivities: Football fans at the Gezi Uprising in Turkey, Yağmur Nuhrat, 9. Police, Hospitality, and Mega-Event Security Rio de Janeiro, Erika Robb Larkins, 10. Protesting Police, Paul Mutsaers and Tom van Nuenen, Section III: Esprit de Corps. 11. A Moral Interpretation of Police Deviance, Didier Fassin, 12. The Black Box of Police Torture, Laurence Ralph, 13. The Intimate State: Troubling Intimacies with the State in the Greek Asylum Procedure, Heath Cabot