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"Didier Fassin is a French anthropologist and sociologist. He is the James D. Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science at theInstitute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and in 2019 was appointed to the Annual Chair in Public Health at theColl ge de France, where he delivered the lecture ""The Inequality of Lives."" He has conducted research in Ecuador, Senegal, South Africa, and France, particularly on moral and political issues around health and humanitarianism as well as immigration and asylum as part of a program of the European Research Council. His previous books include Prison Worlds, The Will to Punish, and Death of a Traveller. Frederic Debomy is a graphic-novel writer born in Fontenay-aux-Roses, France, in 1975. He has written book-length essays and nearly a dozen graphic novels, including several works on Myanmar. He is the former president of Info Birmanie, an organization dedicated to raising public awareness about the lack of democracy in Myanmar. Jake Raynal studied applied arts at Paris's printing academy, the cole Estienne, and has been making comics since 1994. He is the creator of a series of fantastical chronicles that was first published by the French-Belgian comics magazine Fluide Glacial and later turned into three books- Combustion Spontanee, Esprit Frappeur, and Les Nouveaux Myst res. He also collaborated with Claire Bouilhac on the Melody Bondage series and the Francis series. Cambrioleurs, his first foray into adventure comics, came out in 2013, followed in 2017 by a volume of the Little Comics Library of Knowledge devoted to Les Situationnistes. Rachel Gomme is a translator and artist based in London, England. She has translated many works of social science as well as art history and literary texts. As an interdisciplinary artist, she creates and writes about performance, presents work, and teaches in the United Kingdom and internationally."
By exposing the realities of everyday 'anticrime' policing, Didier Fassin explodes the myth that police are the solution to serious crime. These shadowy units that claim to be on the front lines of producing safety instead prey on the most vulnerable and alienated members of society, sending a clear message that those communities do not belong. -Alex S. Vitale, author of The End of Policing Praise for Enforcing Order: Fascinating...Enforcing Order is an intriguing read, not least for what it reveals about the politics of law and order, and of policing, in France in recent times...a rich text. -LSE Review of Books Powerful, distressing, and thought-provoking...an undertaking unprecedented in France and one that, as the difficulties of access Fassin encountered suggest, will not be conducted again for some time. -Times Higher Education Fassin's book-the most significant contribution to the public anthropology of policing-has opened up space to discuss the unresolved tension underlying the contemporary state, that between providing security and protecting human rights. -Social Anthropology
