Police in Africa: The Street Level View

The studies span the continent from South Africa to Sierra Leone, and illustrate similarities and differences in Anglo- phone, Francophone and Lusophone states, post- socialist, post-military and post-conflict contexts, and amid both centralisation and devolution of policing powers, democratic transitions and new illiberal regimes, while keeping a strong ethnographic focus on ordinary police officers and police work at their core.. This book brings together important new work on the subject from a group of criminologists, anthropologists, sociologists, historians, political scientists and others, who have engaged with police forces and the publi

Olly Owen is research fellow at Oxford University's Department of International Development and Jonny Steinberg is Associate Professor in African Criminology at Oxford University.. Mirco Göpfert has a PhD in anthropology from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. About the AuthorJan Beek is a researcher at AFRASO, Frankfurt

Mirco Göpfert has a PhD in anthropology from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Jan Beek is a researcher at AFRASO, Frankfurt. Olly Owen is research fellow at Oxford University's Department of International Development and Jonny Steinberg is Associate Professor in African Criminology at Oxford University.