Police in Africa
Subtitle: the street level view
By: Jan Beek, Mirco Göpfert, Olly Owen, Jonny Steinberg (Eds.).
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780190676636
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Administration of Criminal justice; Police; Police-community relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-357) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword.; title: Towards what kind of global policing studies?  -- Ian Loader -- Introduction.; title: Policing in Africa reconsidered  -- Jan Beek, Mirco Gopfert, Olly Owen, and Jonny Steinberg; title: Policing Africa : structures and pathways  -- Klaus Schlichte; title: What is the concept of professionalization good for? An argument from late colonialism  -- Joël Glasman; title: The colonial subttext of British-led police reform in Sierra Leone  -- Erlend Grøner Krogstad; title: Policing during and after Apartheid : a new perspective on continuity and change  -- Jonny Steinberg; title: HIstoricising vigilante policing in Plateau State, Nigeria  -- Jimam Lar; title: Who are the police in Africa?  -- Thomas Bierschenk; title: Somewhere between green and blue : a special police unit in the DR Congo  -- Laura Thurmann; title: Moonlighting : crossing the public-private policing divide in Durban, South Africa  -- Tessa Diphoorn; title: Risk and motivation in police work in Nigeria  -- Olly Owen; title: Fighting for respect : violence, masculinity and legitmacy in the South African Police Service  -- Andrew Faull; title: Policing boundaries : the cultural work of African policing  -- David Pratten; title: The belly of the police  -- Julia Hornberger; title: Inside the police stations in Maputo City : between legality and legitmacy  -- Helene Maria Kyed; title: Money, morals and law : the legitmacy of police traffic checks in Ghana  -- Jan Beek; title: Soft law enforcement in the Nigerien Gendarmerie : how a case in born -- Mirco Göpfert.