Andrew Faull

Police Work and Identity

A South African Ethnography

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Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on a rich ethnography, this book demonstrates how the dynamics that lead to breakdowns in policing in transitional regimes such as South Africa, have their origins in the day to day experiences and ambitions of the average police officer.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9781138233294
• ISBN-10: 1138233293
• Artikelnr.: 49085597

Autorenporträt

Andrew Faull is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Safety Governance and Criminology, University of Cape Town, Editor of South African Crime Quarterly, and author of Behind the Badge: the untold stories of South Africa's police service members. He was previously a researcher at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) and a police reservist (volunteer) in the South African Police Service.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Police work
personal identity
and context
2. Police practice and the good shift
3. The good shift as fiction
4. More than police work: precarity
policing
and personal identity
5. Ambition
shame
violence
and respect
6. Individualism
transgression
coercion
and hope
7. Accidental occupations in the post-colony