Jan Beek is the leader of the research project ‘Police-translations’ in the Department of Anthropology and African Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University MainzThomas Bierschenk is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the Johannes Gutenberg University MainzAnnalena Kolloch is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Anthropology and African Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University MainzBernd Meyer is Professor for Intercultural Communication at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

'This book is a recommended study that nicely incorporates anthropology, criminology, history, linguistics, and sociology.'Ryan Shaffer, Ethnic and Racial Studies'The ethnographic observations on Europe at the center of Policing race, ethnicity and culture: Ethnographic perspectives across Europe are much appreciated because the literature on policing and racial relations is typically heavily focused on the United States. This book effectively situates race, ethnicity and culture at the center of how police forces (re)produce - and govern - moral and institutional parameters, allowing for a comparative study of police relationships with newcomers in Europe.' Muhammad Asad Latif, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics'Policing race, ethnicity and culture provides inspiring leads for future studies of the police and of migrant-state interactions in Europe. It is, therefore, a must read for both students and researchers across the board of social sciences.' Sophie Andreetta, Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis'Through the diversity of the contexts studied and [...] a real empirical anchoring which leaves a large place for the words of the actors [...] this work makes an important contribution to the analysis of the role of the police in the (re)production of racial categories in European societies.' Paul Grassin, Government and Public Action

• IntroductionPolicing differences: perspectives from Europe – Jan Beek, Thomas Bierschenk and Annalena Kolloch Part I: Categorizations of difference in police work 1 Police racism in France and Germany: occupational socialisation and institutional guidelines – Jérémie Gauthier and Jacques de Maillard2 Policing order: ethnicity in statistics and the functions of nationalism – Rebecca Pates3 Predictively policed: the Dutch CAS case and its forerunners – Paul Mutsaers and Tom van Nuenen 4 The social construction of parallel society in Swedish police documents – Ida NafstadPart II: Doing differences in everyday policing5 Dirty Harry gone global? On globalising policing and punitive impotence – David Sausdal 6 Instrumentalising racism in Russian policing: everyday interactions between police officers and migrants – Ekaterina Khodzhaeva 7 Negotiating with ethnic diversity: perceptions and patterns in everyday police work in Germany – Nina Müller 8 ‘Do you understand? Yes, you understand.’: bureaucratic translations of difference during deportation talks in Switzerland – Lisa Marie BorrelliPart III: Policing as translation 9 Inclusive and non-inclusive modes of communication in multilingual operational police training – Annalena Kolloch and Bernd Meyer 10 Talking with hands and feet: language differences and translation in German policing – Jan Beek and Marcel Müller 11 The Portuguese police and colonial legacies: when language divides – Susana DurãoPart IV: Police officers and ethnographers 12 Albanian culture and major crime: challenging culturalist assumptions among investigating UK police – Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers13 Approaching foreign milieus: experiences from a joint seminar with police trainees and anthropology students – Gisela Pauli Caldas and Thomas Widlok PostfaceAuthorizing race: on police reproduction of difference – Ian Loader