Globally, there is emerging evidence that drugs policing is moving away from traditional
enforcement interventions towards a greater focus on harm reduction. Signs of a shift …

Harm takes shape in and through what is suppressed, left out, or taken for granted. This
book is a guide to understanding and uncovering what is left unsaid—whether concealed or …

Close-knit religious groups have a long history of relying on brokers to facilitate the
connection with the state. Police agencies also often rely on brokers to provide a reliable …

Police work relies fundamentally on non-declarative how-to knowledge, such as embodied
skills (Lizardo, 2017). While there is a longstanding tradition of research on forms of police …

Drawing on six years of ethnographic research, this book critically examines police culture,
exploring police behaviours, decisionmaking and actions. Police culture is a concept widely …

Police tell stories not only to make sense of their experiences but also, as this paper argues,
they tell stories to establish legal doctrines and support justifications for their decisions …

The decade of the 1990s has become a significant topic of cultural memory in postsocialist
countries, including the Czech Republic. One of the most pervasive interpretive frames of …

Police departments around the world implement algorithmic systems to enhance various
policing tasks. Ensuring such innovations take place responsibly–with public values upheld …

Many inner-city neighbourhoods across North America are disproportionately subject to
heightened and aggressive policing strategies. Consequently, many inner-city residents …

In this chapter, we argue that ethnography can play a more active role in transforming
policing to better serve the current and future needs of communities by focusing on positive …