Title Twilight policing : private security and violence in urban South Africa / Tessa G. Diphoorn

Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource Contents Twilight policing: the performance of sovereign power -- "Old school" policing versus "the new South Africa" : violence and security in South Africa -- "The promising horse" : the armed response sector -- "Wanna-be policemen" : being an armed response officer -- "It all comes down to them" : daily interactions with the "state" -- "Getting connected with the community" : the beneficiaries of armed response -- Performances of twilight policing : public authority, coercion, and moral ordering -- Expanding the twilight Summary "South Africa boasts the largest private security sector in the entire world, reflecting deep anxieties about violence, security, and governance. Twilight Policing is an ethnographic study of the daily policing practices of armed response officers, a specific type of private security officer, and their interactions with citizens and the state police in Durban, South Africa. This book shows how their policing practices simultaneously undermine and support the state, resulting in actions that are neither public nor private, but something in between, something 'twilight.' Their performances of security are also punitive, disciplinary, and exclusionary, and work to reinforce post-apartheid racial and economic inequalities. Ultimately, Twilight Policing helps to illuminate how citizens survive volatile conditions and to whom they assign the authority to guide them in the process"--Provided by publisher Analysis armed response company armed response officers south africa criminology disciplinary security durban south africa exclusionary security policing in durban policing in south africa policing practices post apartheid policing post apartheid race and economy private sector security firms private security officers south africa private security south africa private security punitive security security performance security south african security south african violence Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Police, Private -- Social aspects -- South Africa -- Durban Private security services -- Social aspects -- South Africa -- Durban BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology. South Africa -- Durban Form Electronic book ISBN 9780520962507 0520962508

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