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Once a marginal political issue, crime control now occupies a central place on the social, political and economic agenda of contemporary liberal democracies. Nowhere more so than in post-apartheid South Africa, where the transition from apartheid rule to democratic rule was marked by a shift in concern from political to criminal violence. In this book Anne-Marie Singh offers a comprehensive account of policing transformations in post-apartheid South Africa. Her analysis of crime and mechanisms for its control is linked to an analysis of neo-liberal policies, providing the basis for a critique of existing analyses of liberal democratic governance. Themes addressed in the book include the exercise of coercive authority, state and non-state expertise in policing, the 'rationally-choosing' criminal, and the importance of developing an active and responsible citizenship.
Once a marginal political issue, crime control now occupies a central place on the social, political and economic agenda of contemporary liberal democracies. Nowhere more so than in post-apartheid South Africa, where the transition from apartheid rule to democratic rule was marked by a shift in concern from political to criminal violence.In this book, Anne-Marie Singh offers a comprehensive account of policing transformations in post-apartheid South Africa. Her analysis of crime and mechanisms for its control is linked to an analysis of neo-liberal policies, providing the basis for a critique of existing analyses of liberal democratic governance. Themes addressed in the book include the exercise of coercive authority, state and non-state expertise in policing, the 'rationally-choosing' criminal, and the importance of developing an active and responsible citizenship.
The idea of ???police occupational culture??? or ???cop culture???
has been a source of academic interest and debate since research
into policing began in earnest in the 1960s. ???Police culture???
has become a lens through which a number of aspects of the police
and policing more broadly have been studied, including the use of
discretion, police corruption, institutional racism, sexism and
police reform. For the most part, these studies have been done in
topical isolation from each other and have focused rather narrowly
on Anglo-American state policing forms. Using studies from
Australia, Britain, the United States, Africa and Canada, this book
offers a contemporary look at police culture from an international
perspective by questioning established silos in topics, by
presenting new ways of thinking about police culture and suggesting
forms that police culture is likely to take in the future. In
revisiting the meaning of police culture in the light of key
developments in the field of policing, including the pluralization
of policing governance and delivery, new management practices and
the increased diversification and representation within police
organizations, the chapters in this book offer both explanatory and
normative approaches to the topic. The chapters also point to new
topics in police cultural studies, such as the impact of tertiary
education opportunities on police culture, police unions as
counter-cultural groupings, the coming together of private and
public policing cultures, and the impact of new identity groupings
on police organizational culture.
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