Introducing: Guest Contributor Seyed Mirmajlessi

I’m thrilled to be able to introduce a new guest contributor, Seyed Mirmajlessi.  Seyed graduated from Eastern Michigan University in 2010 with a B.S. in Criminology and Criminal Justice and is currently undertaking the M.A. program at EMU in Criminology.  His specific interest include: police-public relations, privatization of prisons, and the extensive impact technology has brought into our current criminal justice system.  We can look forward to posts from Seyed that explore the use of social technologies by police forces.

Welcome to our anthropolitical forum, Seyed!

Welcome a new member of the team: Maya Barak

I’m thrilled to introduce a new member of the Anthropoliteia team: Maya Barak.   Maya graduated from the University of Michigan in 2009 with a B.A. in Social Anthropology and Peace and Social Justice. She is currently working on her M.A. in Criminology at Eastern Michigan University. Her specific interests include: immigration, border security, and policing; economic globalization, capitalism, and corporate and state crime; and the construction of, as well as discourse surrounding, crime and criminals.

Maya will be heading up our In the News feature as well as potentially some other occasional posts.  I hope everyone gives her a warm welcome; I know I’m thrilled to have her aboard!

Anthropoliteia has a new look!

Check out the new layout and format here at Anthropoliteia.  More slick, more urban, more… concrete gifs.  Comments & reactions?

“Policing After the Financial Crisis” Resource

Because I think this it something that we need to keep talking about,  I’ve created a new “feature” category call “after the crisis”.  Posts on this topic can now be found by selecting this category (on the toolbar the left).  I’ve also made a link to that discussion via the “resources page“, where’s I’ve also created a Special Topics section…

1000 Visits

Let’s all take a minute to congratulate ourselves on a rip-roaring start!  We’ve officially past the 1000 visit mark… Well done everyone, now for 10,000!

Welcome to Anthropoliteia!

Welcome to Anthropoliteia!  Our site is still very much under construction, but we hope you bear with us and check back soon.

We get our name from the Ancient Greek words anthropos (human) and politeia (the business of running the polis, The City or politics; from which we get the word “police”).

Once we’re fully rolling, we will be an interdisciplinary (political science, sociology, anthropology) group blog focused on the study of police, policing and security from a holistic and global perspective.  In addition to irreglar posts from our contributors, we’re planning a bunch of cool features including: “Reports from the Field” and “Policing in the News” as well as a number of resources (bibliographies, useful sites, etc.)