Full Description
Policing the Global South provides scholarship which further transnationalises and democratises ideas about policing practices and philosophies, highlighting renovations in approaches to policing studies, and injecting innovative perspectives into the study of policing from scholars positioned on the 'periphery'.
Criminological knowledge depolarisation underscores a conscious effort by scholars from the Global South to increase intellectual knowledge focused on developing context-specific responses to issues not aligned to Northern ideological positions and specific to the non-Northern context. Such shifts draw attention to the expanse of spaces beyond Northern centres rife with challenges unlike any specific to those experienced or conceptualised by scholars from the Global North with an applied Northern criminological lens. Applying a postcolonial lens to empirical knowledge from country-specific cases in former colonies in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, the Pacific, and Latin America, this book examines how policing issues not aligned to Northern ideological positions and specific to non-Northern contexts are addressed. The primary purpose is to share innovations in the field of policing - service provision, threats to security, crime responses, justice and international trends - developed in postcolonial developing-country contexts. Given the aim of the book and the contributors' own research on issues of policing across the globe, it discusses themes including but not limited to the colonial legacies and their impact on policing; how plural regulatory systems and partnerships are navigated by the police; the linkages between access to justice, community perceptions, and police legitimacy; innovations and challenges in organisational reform, crime prevention, and community partnerships; and the expanding roles of police organisations in the Global South. While each chapter presents a policing issue in a country within a specific part of the Global South, the book highlights how important it is to frame responses based on contextual realities informed by an awareness of the past and present, with a goal of informing the future.
Delivering a much-needed introduction to those specialising in policing in developing countries, this book is invaluable reading for academics and students of criminology, criminal justice, governance, policy, and IR, as well as professionals in policing organizations across the globe.
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1- Policing the Global South-- colonial legacies, pluralities, partnerships and reform
Part 1 - Acknowledging colonial legacies and their impact on policing
Chapter 2- Bringing empire back in: Unaccountable public violence, sovereignty and the rule of difference in Latin America
Chapter 3- Post-coloniality as lenses that reveal day-to-day police practices in Brazil and Mexico
Chapter 4- Modalities of policing in contemporary Brazil
Chapter 5- 'VIP Culture' and the provision of policing and security in postcolonial Karachi
Chapter 6- From Barefoot Policeman to Policeman as President: An Overview of the Institutional Development of the Colombian Police Force
Part 2: Navigating plural regulatory systems and policing partnerships
Chapter 7- Serving God, the Community and the State: Policing in Tuvalu
Chapter 8- Police, Private Security, and "Patitos": The Market for Security in Mexico City
Chapter 9- Plural Policing in Crisis: Inclusive security provision in violent and unequal societies
Chapter 10- Balancing the scale: Police officers' perspectives on plural policing in the Solomon Islands
Part 3 - Access to justice, community perceptions and police legitimacy
Chapter 11- Institutional Effectiveness, Access to Justice and the Governance of Women Police Stations in West Bengal
Chapter 12- Unfulfilled Potential: Women Police Stations in Pakistan
Chapter 13- Proactive or Predatory: Citizen perceptions of the Zimbabwe state police
Chapter 14- Challenges of Police Prosecution in the Global South: Perspectives of Ghanaian Police Officers
Chapter 15- An Integrative Assessment of Normative Expectations, Treatment Outcome, Procedural Justice, and Public Satisfaction with the Police in the Global South
Part 4 - Organisational reform, crime prevention and community partnerships
Chapter 16- From fear to cooperation: The critical role of community policing in building trust in the postcolonial state of Pakistan
Chapter 17- Feeling black and blue: indigenous police liaison officers in Torres Strait region
Chapter 18- 'Police are the public and the public are the police': Community policing and countering violent extremism (CVE) in Bangladesh
Chapter 19- The Global South and crime prevention through social development: Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago
Chapter 20- The Effectiveness of the British Models of Community Policing in Fiji
Chapter 21- From social promise to social fad: The evolution of community policing on
the Caribbean Island of Dominica
Part 5 - The expanding roles of police organisations
Chapter 22- Policing Human Trafficking and Commercial Sex in Kiribati
Chapter 23- Policing and Technology in the Contemporary Caribbean
Chapter 24- Policing Wildlife Crimes: A historical analysis of the development and impact of wildlife ranger units in Sub-Saharan Africa
Chapter 25- Criminalization of Moral Hazard during Covid-19 Crisis: The study of Thailand under emergency decree 2020-2021
Conclusion
Chapter 26- Continuity and change in policing the Global South
