书目名称 | Inside an African Police Force | 副标题 | The Ugandan Police E | 编辑 | Jude Kagoro | 视频video | | 概述 | The first book to provide a detailed analysis of a single police force in Africa.Author has insider-outsider (consultant-ethnographer) access to the police.Includes an intelligent application of two v | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .The book discusses police practices in Uganda, which are understood as fluid and reflective of the socio-political, cognitive and discursive contexts within which the Uganda Police Force (UPF) exist. The author was immersed in the UPF both as an ethnographer and a consultant. The book demonstrates how police officers navigate clashes between personal interests and those of the UPF shedding more light on the divergences and convergences between policies in theory and policies in practice. It contributes to the literature on police research, especially to our understanding of policing and the anthropology of the state in Africa. It highlights that the Ugandan police engages in political policing and its role is stretched beyond its legal mandate. The target audience is twofold: first, academics interested in police studies and the undercurrents of interface bureaucracies in Africa. Second, practitioners focused on improving state and police services in African contexts.. | 出版日期 | Book 2022 | 关键词 | Uganda Police Force; Political policing; policing; Museveni; militarization of the police; practical norm | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14992-4 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-14994-8 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-14992-4 | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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