Southern and Postcolonial Perspectives on Policing, Security and Social Order
Post-colonial legacies continue to impact upon the Global South and this edited collection explores their influence on systems of policing and social ordering. Expanding the Southern Criminology agenda, the book critically examines social and environmental harms, violence and war crimes, human rights abuses and the criminalisation of protest.
Post-colonial legacies continue to impact upon the Global South and this edited collection examines their influence on systems of policing, security management and social ordering. Expanding the Southern Criminology agenda, the book critically examines social harms, violence and war crimes, human rights abuses, environmental degradation and the criminalisation of protest.
The book asks how current states of policing came about, their consequences and whose interests they continue to serve through vivid international case studies, including prison struggles in Latin America and the misuse of military force. Challenging current criminological thinking on the Global South, the book considers how police and state overreach can undermine security and perpetuate racism and social conflict.
Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti is a Principal Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Brighton.
Peter Squires is Professor of Criminology and Public Policy at the University of Brighton. He was President of the British Society for Criminology 2015-2019.
Zoha Waseem is an Assistant Professor in Criminology at the University of Warwick.
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