Policing and the Poetics of Everyday Life Book

Introduction The Bureaucratic Paradox 1

1 Approaching Human Beings as Problems 15

2 The Common Roots of Bureaucratic Policing and Mainstream Social Science 35

3 The Approach of a Phenomenological Aesthetics of Encounter 47

4 Domestic Violence Encounters: The Eye of the Painter and the Eye of the Police 65

5 The Policing of Childhood: Encounters with Juveniles 89

6 The Poetry of Policing: Encounters from the Drug War 113

7 Encountering the Drama of Mental and Emotional Crisis 138

8 Policing Death: The Problematization of Mortality 162

9 Policing and the Poetics of Everyday Life 185

Postscript: Imagining Otherwise 197

Notes 201

Bibliography 215

Index 237