Policing and the poetics of everyday life /

Policing and the poetics of everyday life /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Wender, Jonathan M., 1966-
Imprint:	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2008.
Description:	xii, 243 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Police. Interpersonal relations -- Philosophy. Law enforcement -- Philosophy. Interpersonal relations -- Philosophy. Law enforcement -- Philosophy. Police.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10829740

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ISBN:	9780252033711 025203371X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-235) and index.
Summary:	"Policing and the Poetics of Everyday Life takes a unique approach to the investigation of several abiding issues at the center of criminological and sociological inquiry by engaging them from a standpoint grounded in philosophy and aesthetics. This study by a self-described "philosopher-cop" develops a phenomenological interpretation of police-citizen encounters, revealing the importance of metaphysics in everyday life through a disclosure of the grounding principles that inform the bureaucratic approach to human predicaments. Jonathan M. Wender, a social philosopher and veteran police sergeant, brings a refreshing new voice to academic and practical discussions of social questions that are otherwise addressed almost exclusively from a narrow scientific or administrative perspective."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: The bureaucratic paradox
Division I
Approaching human beings as problems
The common roots of bureaucratic policing and mainstream social science
The approach of a phenomenological aesthetics of encounter
Division II
Domestic violence encounters : the eye of the painter and the eye of the police
The policing of childhood : encounters with juveniles
The poetry of policing : encounters from the drug war
Encountering the drama of mental and emotional crisis
Policing death : the problematization of mortality
Policing and the poetics of everyday life
Postscript: imagining otherwise.