Twilight policing : private security and violence in urban South Africa /

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"South Africa boasts the largest private security sector in the entire world, reflecting deep anxieties about violence, security, and governance. Twilight Policing is an ethnographic study of the daily policing practices of armed response officers, a specific type of private security officer, a...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Diphoorn, Tessa G., 1984- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Police, Private > Social aspects > South Africa > Durban.
Private security services > Social aspects > South Africa > Durban.
Police privée > Aspect social > Afrique du Sud > Durban.
Services privés de sécurité > Aspect social > Afrique du Sud > Durban.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
South Africa > Durban
armed response company.
armed response officers south africa.
criminology.
disciplinary security.
durban south africa.
exclusionary security.
policing in durban.
policing in south africa.
policing practices.
post apartheid policing.
post apartheid race and economy.
private sector security firms.
private security officers south africa.
private security south africa.
private security.
punitive security.
security performance.
security.
south african security.
south african violence.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Twilight policing: the performance of sovereign power
  • "Old school" policing versus "the new South Africa" : violence and security in South Africa
  • "The promising horse" : the armed response sector
  • "Wanna-be policemen" : being an armed response officer
  • "It all comes down to them" : daily interactions with the "state"
  • "Getting connected with the community" : the beneficiaries of armed response
  • Performances of twilight policing : public authority, coercion, and moral ordering
  • Expanding the twilight.

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