Police and Policing

• Published in: Annual review of anthropology Vol. 47; no. 1; pp. 133 - 148
• Main Author: Martin, Jeffrey T
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Palo Alto Annual Reviews 21.10.2018; Annual Reviews, Inc
• Subjects: Anthropology; Community policing; Critical theory; Discipline; Dominance; Ethics; Ethnography; Interpersonal relations; Kinship; Law; Moral agency; Natural environment; Personhood; Police; Policing; Political culture; Politics; Power; Social conditions & trends; Social control; Sovereignty; Traditions; violence

The anthropology of policing draws from a range of intellectual traditions to generate new understandings of the police as an institution and policing as a social practice. This article reviews recent anthropological work on police, situating it in longer-term disciplinary concerns. I begin with the...