Cultures of Legitimacy and Postcolonial Policing: Guest Editor Introduction

Jauregui, Beatrice

doi:10.1111/lsi.12026

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“…Scholars in a number of disciplines have contributed accounts of histories and practices of policing in the 'alternative modernities' endemic to postcolonial or developmental environments. This diverse literature has recently begun to coalesce around the relativism of cultural anthropology into a sort of critical theoretical counterpoint in dialogue with the mainstream sociology of police (Garriott, 2013;Jauregui, 2013). Colonized societies saw anthropologists and police arrive together, as partners in the colonial system of control.…”

Section: Historical Modes Of Formal Policing: Centers and Peripheriesmentioning

confidence: 98%

Police: A Sociology of Knowledge Approach

Manning

Martin

2015

International Encyclopedia of the Social &Amp; Behavioral Sciences

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Section: Historical Modes Of Formal Policing: Centers and Peripheriesmentioning

confidence: 98%

Police: A Sociology of Knowledge Approach

Manning

Martin

2015

International Encyclopedia of the Social &Amp; Behavioral Sciences

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“…In fact, the convolution of formal and informal practices in almost all interactions between citizens and the state in Kenya, but especially with regard to crime and justice, makes the figure of the “killer cop” possible. What’s more, it is precisely the alleged corruption and criminality of the police (Akech, 2005; Okia, 2011; Omenya and Lubaale, 2012; Ruteere, 2011) in the context of a what is widely deemed a malfunctioning justice system that gives rise to police vigilantism (see Hansen and Stepputat, 2005: 13; Jauregui, 2013, 2015, 2016; Owen and Cooper-Knock, 2014). Many people in Kenya consider “killer cops” a necessary evil to protect “the good side” (similar to Jauregui’s “impure police vigilante,” 2015; see also Tankebe, 2013).…”

Section: Permissive Spaces For Police Killingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Police killings and the vicissitudes of borders and bounding orders in Mathare, Nairobi

Stapele

2019

Environ Plan D

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This article sets out to explore the ways in which local divisions contribute to and contest “permissive spaces” for police killings in an urban settlement in Nairobi called Mathare. Taking police killings as part of local bordering and bounding draws attention to the underlying social divisions that are implicated in policing these neighborhoods and which enable and contest such killings. As such, it opens up a view on the way police violence is entrenched in local tensions and conflict, which adds to analyses of police killings that explore public concerns over crime, political mechanization, and individual motivations. Hence, the focus on police killings as a bordering practice highlights the interaction between police work and the local vicissitudes of bordering and bounding and how these pertain to the production of city- and ghettoscapes.

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“…Such present-day constructions can often be traced to histories of colonialism and slavery, in which policing served to enforce an unequal social and racial order. There is increasing academic interest in tracing how public police bodies are shaped by, and grapple with, such colonial legacies (Jauregui 2013;Owen 2016). Attempts to reform postcolonial police forces have included reorganizing the police as a "service" rather than a "force", and in some cases have involved specific attention to processes of racialization (Marks 2005;Hornberger 2011).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Old Boys and Badmen: Private Security in (Post)Colonial Jamaica

Jaffe

Diphoorn

2019

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Racial profiling by the police is a common occurrence in many countries, and the racialized constructions of threats underlying such policing practices can often be traced to histories of colonialism and slavery. This essay seeks to draw attention to the role of private policing in relation to these legacies. Contemporary private security guards often identify suspicious or threatening persons based on racialized discourses similar to those prevalent among police officers. While the demographic make-up of private security professionals is not always the same as that of the police, they have similarly been implicated in profiling practices. How are the practices of private security companies related to colonial, racialized modes of policing? What colonial legacies and historical parallels can we recognize in contemporary private policing, and what are the most evident discontinuities? How do employees, managers, and guards grapple with these legacies? This essay focuses on the private security sector in Jamaica to address such questions. Drawing on interviews, focus groups and informal conversations with the owners and managers of private security companies, government officials, and security guards in the capital of

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Cultures of Legitimacy and Postcolonial Policing: Guest Editor Introduction

Cited by 8 publications

References 16 publications

Police: A Sociology of Knowledge Approach

Police: A Sociology of Knowledge Approach

Police killings and the vicissitudes of borders and bounding orders in Mathare, Nairobi

Old Boys and Badmen: Private Security in (Post)Colonial Jamaica

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