Chapter 1 Police Forces: A Cultural History of an Institution

Chapter 2 War—A Fortuitous Occasion for Social Disciplining and Political Centralization? The Case of Bavaria Under Maximilian I

Chapter 3 “Is It Useful to Deceive the People?”: Secrecy and Deception as Political Resources

Chapter 4 State Desire: On the Epoch of the Police

Chapter 6 A City Tracks a Murderer: Mass Murder and Mass Public in Weimar Germany

Chapter 7 How Fat Detectives Think

Chapter 8 Passer À L’acte: Policing (in) the Office: Notes on Industry Standards and the Große polizeiausstellung of 1926

Chapter 9 Hitchcock’s Truth, or: Why The Wrong Man is Not a Suspense Film

Chapter 10 Police, Paranoia, and Theater in Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland

Chapter 11 A Critique of Community Policing

Chapter 12 Exception Rules: Contemporary Political Theory and the Police