ISBN:
9780520962507
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0520962508
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Diphoorn, Tessa G., 1984 - Twilight policing
Keywords:
Police, Private; Social aspects; South Africa; Durban.
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Private security services; Social aspects; South Africa; Durban.
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Police, Private Social aspects
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Private security services Social aspects
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Police privée - Aspect social - Afrique du Sud - Durban
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Services privés de sécurité - Aspect social - Afrique du Sud - Durban
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS - Infrastructure
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SOCIAL SCIENCE - General
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SOCIAL SCIENCE - Criminology
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South Africa - Durban
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armed response company
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armed response officers south africa
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criminology
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disciplinary security
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durban south africa
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exclusionary security
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policing in durban
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policing in south africa
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policing practices
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post apartheid policing
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post apartheid race and economy
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private sector security firms
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private security officers south africa
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private security south africa
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private security
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punitive security
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security performance
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security
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south african security
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south african violence
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Südafrika
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Kriminalität
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Bekämpfung
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Bewachungsgewerbe
Abstract:
"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, and their interactions with citizens and the state police in Durban, South Africa. This book shows how their policing practices simultaneously undermine and support the state, resulting in actions that are neither public nor private, but something in between, something 'twilight.' Their performances of security are also punitive, disciplinary, and exclusionary, and work to reinforce post-apartheid racial and economic inequalities. Ultimately, Twilight Policing helps to illuminate how citizens survive volatile conditions and to whom they assign the authority to guide them in the process"--Provided by publisher.
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