Police in Africa: The Street Level View
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| Rating | : | 4.36 (971 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0190676639 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-24 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Olly Owen is research fellow at Oxford University's Department of International Development and Jonny Steinberg is Associate Professor in African Criminology at Oxford University.. Jan Beek is a researcher at AFRASO, Frankfurt. Mirco Göpfert has a PhD in anthropology from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
About the AuthorJan Beek is a researcher at AFRASO, Frankfurt. Olly Owen is research fellow at Oxford University's Department of International Development and Jonny Steinberg is Associate Professor in African Criminology at Oxford University.. Mirco Göpfert has a PhD in anthropology from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
The studies span the continent from South Africa to Sierra Leone, and illustrate similarities and differences in Anglo- phone, Francophone and Lusophone states, post- socialist, post-military and post-conflict contexts, and amid both centralisation and devolution of policing powers, democratic transitions and new illiberal regimes, while keeping a strong ethnographic focus on ordinary police officers and police work at their core.. This book brings together important new work on the subject from a group of criminologists, anthropologists, sociologists, historians, political scientists and others, who have engaged with police forces and the publics with whom they interact across the continent to provide street-level perspectives from below and inside Africa's police forces. The collection is