Previous articleNext article No AccessCriminal Obsessions, after Foucault: Postcoloniality, Policing, and the Metaphysics of DisorderJean and John Comaroff Jean and John Comaroff Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Critical Inquiry Volume 30, Number 4Summer 2004 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/423773 Views: 440Total views on this site Citations: 68Citations are reported from Crossref © 2004 by The University of Chicago.PDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Courtney Joshua, Kevin Walby, Justin Piché Skirts, Stereotypes, and Silences: Representations of Women in Canadian Police Museums, Women & Criminal Justice 31, no.55 (Mar 2020): 391–405.https://doi.org/10.1080/08974454.2020.1737628Kevin Walby, Justin Piché, Matthew Ferguson “Everybody criticizes police, but nobody criticizes museums”: Police Headquarters and Museums as Public Culture, TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies 43 (Sep 2021): 81–99.https://doi.org/10.3138/topia-43-007Yazid Ben Hounet Punishing Crime, (May 2021): 69–86.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70906-8_5Mariana Sirimarco Las cosas que recuperamos en combate. 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