"Ethnography has a long history in the humanities and social sciences and has provided the base line in the field of police studies for over sixty years. We hav

Ethnography has a long history in the humanities and social sciences and has provided the base line in the field of police studies for over 60 years. We have re

This book demonstrates the unique contribution police ethnographies make to our understanding of policing cultures and practices in a variety of international s

Despite illustrious origins dating to the 1920s, qualitative crime research has long been overshadowed by quantitative inquiry. After decades of limited use, th

The book examines 'the globalization of local policing' through an ethnographic study of the Danish Police. Where many studies are looking into how larger inter