Police Work and Identity - A South African Ethnography

List of contents

1. Police work, personal identity, and context, 2. Police practice and the good shift, 3. The good shift as fiction, 4. More than police work: precarity, policing, and personal identity, 5. Ambition, shame, violence, and respect, 6. Individualism, transgression, coercion, and hope, 7. Accidental occupations in the post-colony

About the author

Andrew Faull is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Safety Governance and Criminology, University of Cape Town, Editor of South African Crime Quarterly, and author of Behind the Badge: the untold stories of South Africa’s police service members. He was previously a researcher at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) and a police reservist (volunteer) in the South African Police Service.

Summary

Drawing on a rich ethnography, this book demonstrates how the dynamics that lead to breakdowns in policing in transitional regimes such as South Africa, have their origins in the day to day experiences and ambitions of the average police officer.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Faull, Faull Andrew
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.09.2017
• EAN: 9781138233294
• ISBN: 978-1-138-23329-4
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Routledge Studies in Crime, Security and Justice
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Anthropology, Republic of South Africa, Legal aspects of criminology, Regional / International studies, Police & security services, Society and culture: general, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Regional Geography, Criminal justice law, Police and security services, Police law and police procedures