Distinguishing Oneself in Law and Order Professions

Sociétés contemporaines
Volume 72, Issue 4, October 2008

Pages: 154
Publisher: Presses de Sciences Po

Page 5

Editorial

Page 7 to 13

Distinguishing Oneself in Law and Order Professions
(Army, Police, Prison, Private Security)
Laurence Proteau, Geneviève Pruvost

Page 15 to 35

The Struggle for Prestige Among Peers
Officers in the Army
Christel Coton
Translated from the French by JPD Systems

Page 37 to 57

Page 59 to 79

Specialization and Distinction in a French Police Station
Ethnography of a Segmentary Institution
Élodie Lemaire

Page 81 to 101

Order and Disorder in the Backstage of an Occupation
The Case of the French Police
Geneviève Pruvost

Page 103 to 123

Pragmatic Distance from the Use of Force
Forms and Functions of Private Security in Argentina
Federico Lorenc Valcarce

Page 125 to 149

The Will to Sociological Knowledge Tested by Fieldwork
From the Enchantment of the Police Station to the Disenchantment of the Prison
Léonore Le Caisne, Laurence Proteau

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