Policing and Human Rights - The Meaning of Violence Justice in Everyday Policing of Johannesburg

Informationen zum Autor Julia Hornberger is senior researcher in Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Zurich and a research fellow at the African Centre for Migration and Society, University of the Witwatersrand. She is also a cofounder of the Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism. Her research interests are justice, policing, the social life of law, violence and the international policing of counterfeit goods and health. Klappentext Policing and Human Rights analyses the implementation of human rights standards, tracing them from the nodal points of their production in Geneva, through the board rooms of national police management and training facilities, to the streets of downtown Johannesburg. Zusammenfassung Policing and Human Rights analyses the implementation of human rights standards, tracing them from the nodal points of their production in Geneva, through the board rooms of national police management and training facilities, to the streets of downtown Johannesburg. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1.Introduction 2. Remembering the Police 3. From Geneva to Johannesburg: Human rights Training 4. 'Don't Push this Constitution down my throat...'; the use of violence in everyday policing 5. 'Your Police - my police': the informal privatisation of policing 6. 'Omms gaan ry!': on entanglement and human rights as violence 7. Conclusion: human rights in their ordinary state

Product details

• Authors: Julia Hornberger, Hornberger Julia
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.03.2014
• EAN: 9780415833165
• ISBN: 978-0-415-83316-5
• No. of pages: 214
• Series: Law, Development and Globalization
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Sociology, LAW / Criminal Law / General, LAW / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, LAW / International, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, Legal aspects of criminology, Police & security services, Social Law, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Development Studies, Criminal justice law, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, Police and security services, Criminology: legal aspects, Social law and Medical law