Black and Blue Policing in South Africa

Name: Black and Blue Policing in South Africa
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ISBN: 9780198273820

ISBN-10: 0198273827

ISBN-13: 9780198273820

Edition: 1994

Authors: John D. Brewer

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The South African Police is one of the world's most controversial police forces. In this, the first detailed study of the origins and development of policing in South Africa, John Brewer places current allegations of police misconduct in their historical context. Long after similar forces elsewhere in the world had been modernized, the South African Police were continuing to discharge a colonial role, using the methods and style of the nineteenth century. Dr Brewer links this lack of development and modernization to the South African state's need for colonialism. It is this, he argues, that is also the source of the close relationship between police and state in South Africa. Now that…

Book details

List price: $205.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/16/1994
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 390
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.386



List of Tables


Abbreviations


Introduction



The Colonial Agenda: 1910-1913



Policemen Versus Pukkah Soldiers: 1914-1926



Internal and External War: 1927-1945



The Transition to Apartheid: 1946-1959



The Second Phase of Apartheid: 1960-1975



Policing Reform and Reforming the Police: 1976-1992


Conclusion


Bibliography


Index