Policing and the Poetics of Everyday Life by Jonathan M. Wender [Hardback]

Description: Policing and the Poetics of Everyday Life takes a unique approach to several abiding issues in criminology and sociology from the standpoint of philosophy and aesthetics. This study by a self-described \u201cphilosopher-cop\u201d 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, draws on Martin Heidegger to argue that \u201cpraxis is poetry,\u201d interpreting all social action as intentional creation (or \u201cpoiesis\u201d) that is intrinsically meaningful. Using an interpretive framework that he calls a \u201cphenomenological aesthetics of encounter,\u201d Wender takes up a number of case studies of police-citizen encounters, including cases of domestic violence, contacts with juveniles, drug-related situations, instances of mental and emotional crisis, and death.

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EAN: 9780252033711

UPC: 9780252033711

ISBN: 9780252033711

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Number of Pages: 256 Pages

Language: English

Publication Name: Policing and the Poetics of Everyday Life

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Subject: Sociology / General, Law Enforcement, Interpersonal Relations, Criminology

Item Height: 0.9 in

Publication Year: 2008

Item Weight: 18.1 Oz

Type: Textbook

Item Length: 9 in

Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science, Psychology

Author: Jonathan M. Wender

Item Width: 6 in

Format: Hardcover