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Title Police in Africa : the street level view / Jan Beek, Miroc Göpfert, Olly Owen, and Jonny Steinberg, editors
Published London : Hurst & Company, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 372 pages) : illustrations
Contents Foreword. Towards what kind of global policing studies? / Ian Loader -- Introduction. Policing in Africa reconsidered / Jan Beek, Mirco Göpfert, Olly Owen, and Jonny Steinberg -- Policing Africa : structures and pathways / Klaus Schlichte -- What is the concept of professionalization good for? An argument from late colonialism / Joël Glasman -- The colonial subttext of British-led police reform in Sierra Leone / Erlend Grøner Krogstad -- Policing during and after Apartheid : a new perspective on continuity and change / Jonny Steinberg -- HIstoricising vigilante policing in Plateau State, Nigeria / Jimam Lar -- Who are the police in Africa? / Thomas Bierschenk -- Somewhere between green and blue : a special police unit in the DR Congo / Laura Thurmann -- Moonlighting : crossing the public-private policing divide in Durban, South Africa / Tessa Diphoorn -- Risk and motivation in police work in Nigeria / Olly Owen -- Fighting for respect : violence, masculinity and legitmacy in the South African Police Service / Andrew Faull -- Policing boundaries : the cultural work of African policing / David Pratten -- The belly of the police / Julia Hornberger -- Inside the police stations in Maputo City : between legality and legitmacy / Helene Maria Kyed -- Money, morals and law : the legitmacy of police traffic checks in Ghana / Jan Beek -- Soft law enforcement in the Nigerien Gendarmerie : how a case in born / Mirco Göpfert
Summary State police forces in Africa are a curiously neglected subject of study, even within the framework of security issues and African states. This work brings together criminologists, anthropologists, sociologists, historians, political scientists and others who have engaged with police forces across the continent and the publics with whom they interact to provide street-level perspectives from below and inside Africa's police forces
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Audience Specialized
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 10, 2019)
Subject Police -- Africa
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Africa
Police-community relations -- Africa
Criminal justice, Administration of
Police
Police-community relations
Africa
Form Electronic book
Author Beek, Jan, editor
Göpfert, Mirco, 1984- editor.
Owen, Olly, 1978- editor.
Steinberg, Jonny, 1970- editor.
ISBN 9780190872625
0190872624