Policing and the poetics of everyday life

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.