Ethnography as a Mode of Policy and Urban Planning Study

https://www.amazon.com/Writing-World-Policing-Difference-Ethnography/dp/022649764X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1514381162&sr=8-1&keywords=fassin+police+didier

Didier Fassin has edited a book about Writing the World of Policing, The Difference Ethnography Makes, Chicago 2017. The above link to amazon.com will enable you to read the beginning of the Introduction, an argument for why ethnography (vs. participant observation, fieldwork, ..., and vs. conventional social science statistical analysis of a data set) is crucial, and not only in police studies. Ethnography demands long times among those you are studying, and an openness to surprise given your prejudices. Hypotheses come after the writing and thinking.  He provides an elegant justification for ethnography in the public policy and urban planning fields.

He also has out another edited book,  If Truth Be Told, The Politics of Public Ethnography
https://www.amazon.com/Writing-World-Policing-Difference-Ethnography/dp/022649764X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1514381162&sr=8-1&keywords=fassin+police+didier
where public policy concerns are addressed. Again the Introduction is illuminating.

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