Download or read book Policing and Contemporary Governance written by William Garriott and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it that police and policing actually do? What are the effects? How are these effects mediated and experienced by different people at different times and in different contexts? This volume draws attention to the centrality of police and policing to the project of governance and the experience of being human in the contemporary world.