Policing Diversity
Policing Diversity

Author: Andrew Faull

Publisher: Rozenberg Publishers

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 105

ISBN-13: 9051709307

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"The shift from apartheid to a constitutional democracy in South Africa brought with it a plethora of questions concerning ideas of nationhood, citizenship, and organisational transformation. Integrally caught up in the revolution, the South African Police Service (SAPS) faced transformative challenges on scales far larger than most other organisations in the country. From being the strong arm of the oppressive elite, it has had to restructure and rearticulate its function while simultaneously attempting to maintain law and order. Like many other corporations and organisations, the SAPS has engaged in interventions aimed at aiding the fluidity of this process. Andrew Faull's thesis is an analysis of one such intervention, focusing on SAPS members at one particular station. It attempts to ascertain the extent to which members are changing as a result of particular diversity workshops conducted in a region of the Western Cape. This work brings together an under-examined intersection of diversity and police cultural theory in South Africa, emphasizing the need for greater attention to these issues. The project of Student Publications has been designed by SAVUSA, NiZA and SANPAD to try and stimulate publication in the Netherlands of excellent South African MA-theses on relevant Southern African themes--Page 4 of cover.

Police Integrity in South Africa
Police Integrity in South Africa

Author: Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovich

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-04-29

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1317266900

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Policing in South Africa has gained notoriety through its extensive history of oppressive law enforcement. In 1994, as the country’s apartheid system was replaced with a democratic order, the new government faced the significant challenge of transforming the South African police force into a democratic police agency—the South African Police Service (SAPS)—that would provide unbiased policing to all the country’s people. More than two decades since the initiation of the reforms, it appears that the SAPS has rapidly developed a reputation as a police agency beset by challenges to its integrity. This book offers a unique perspective by providing in-depth analyses of police integrity in South Africa. It is a case study that systematically and empirically explores the contours of police integrity in a young democracy. Using the organizational theory of police integrity, the book analyzes the complex set of historical, legal, political, social, and economic circumstances shaping police integrity. A discussion of the theoretical framework is accompanied by the results of a nationwide survey of nearly 900 SAPS officers, probing their familiarity with official rules, their expectations of discipline within the SAPS, and their willingness to report misconduct. The book also examines the influence of the respondents’ race, gender, and supervisory status on police integrity. Written in a clear and direct style, this book will appeal to students and scholars of criminology, policing, sociology, political science, as well as to police administrators interested in expanding their knowledge about police integrity and enhancing it in their organizations.

Policing and Crime Control in Post-apartheid South Africa
Policing and Crime Control in Post-apartheid South Africa

Author: Anne-Marie Singh

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-22

Total Pages: 159

ISBN-13: 1317079183

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Once a marginal political issue, crime control now occupies a central place on the social, political and economic agenda of contemporary liberal democracies. Nowhere more so than in post-apartheid South Africa, where the transition from apartheid rule to democratic rule was marked by a shift in concern from political to criminal violence. In this book Anne-Marie Singh offers a comprehensive account of policing transformations in post-apartheid South Africa. Her analysis of crime and mechanisms for its control is linked to an analysis of neo-liberal policies, providing the basis for a critique of existing analyses of liberal democratic governance. Themes addressed in the book include the exercise of coercive authority, state and non-state expertise in policing, the 'rationally-choosing' criminal, and the importance of developing an active and responsible citizenship.

Classify, Exclude, Police
Classify, Exclude, Police

Author: Laurent Fourchard

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2021-03-26

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1119582679

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An important contribution to academic conversations between history, social sciences, and comparative urban studies that explores the effects and limits of public action on urban lives. Examines the limits and effects of public action in urban settings and explores comparisons between cities commonly viewed as incommensurable Integrates historical and ethnographic methods and focuses on state formation, urbanization, and daily lives Addresses debates and controversies in comparative urban studies, history, political science, and urban anthropology Provides a systematic, comparative approach to the practices, processes, arrangements used to create boundaries, direct violence, and produce social, racial, gender, and generational differences

Policing and Boundaries in a Violent Society
Policing and Boundaries in a Violent Society

Author: Guy Lamb

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2022-01-31

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1000536041

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This book explores how social and territorial boundaries have influenced the approaches and practices of the South Africa Police Service (SAPS). By means of a historical analysis of South Africa, this book introduces a new concept, ‘police frontierism’, which illuminates the nature of the relationships between the police, policing and boundaries, and can potentially be used for future case study research. Drawing on a wealth of research, this book examines how social and territorial boundaries strongly influenced police practices and behaviour in South Africa, and how social delineations amplify and distort existing police prejudices against those communities on the other side of the boundary. Focusing on cases of high-density police operations, public-order policing and the recent policing of the COVID-19 lockdown, this book argues that poor economic conditions combined with an increased militarisation of the SAPS and a decline in public trust in the police will result in boundaries continuing to fundamentally inform police work in South Africa. This book will be of interest to scholars and students interested in policing in post-colonial societies characterised by high levels of violence, as well as police work and police militarization.

Danger in Police Culture
Danger in Police Culture

Author: Gráinne Perkins

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2023-12-11

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1837531145

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Through ethnographic research in South Africa, this book explores the lived experiences of police navigating danger and death.