Policing Cities brings together international scholars from numerous disciplines to examine urban policing, securitization, and regulation in nine countries and

An in-depth critical analysis of how ruling elites use the police institution in order to control communities.

Adapted from the landmark essay Enforcing Order, this striking graphic novel offers an accessible inside look at policing and how it leads to discrimination and

This landmark 1973 study of city policemen portrays in detail work "on the street,"the way police regard their work, the way they deal day-by-day with suspects

This book shows how the police functioned in the cities of the Napoleonic Empire. Shifting attention away from political repression, it focuses on the men who e