State violence and human rights state officials in the south /

State violence and human rights state officials in the south / [electronic resource] : edited by Andrew M. Jefferson and Steffen Jensen - Abingdon ; New York, NY : Routledge-Cavendish, 2009 - 1 online resource (x, 208 p.) - Law, development and globalization . - Law, development and globalization .

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-198) and index

The politics of Palestinian legal reform : judicial independence and accountability under occupation / Tobias Kelly -- Traditional authority and localization of state law : the intricacies of boundary marking in policing rural Mozambique / Helene Maria Kyed -- The vision of the state : audiences, enchantments and policing in South Africa / Steffen Jensen -- Translating human rights in the margins : a police-migrant encounter in Johannesburg / Julia Hornberger -- The special field force and Namibian ex-combatant "reintegration" / Lalli Metsola -- On hangings and the dubious embodiment of statehood in Nigerian prisons / Andrew M. Jefferson -- Taking the snake out of the basket : Indian prison warders' opposition to human rights reform / Tomas Martin -- Community policing programmes as police human rights strategies in Costa Rica / Quirine Eijkman -- Commentary : the piggy-in-the-middle / Mike Brogden.


Mode of access : Internet

9780203881989 (electronic bk.) 0203881982 (electronic bk.)


Human rights
Political persecution
Political violence
Police--Complaints against

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