State violence and human right [ state officials in the south

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jefferson, Andrew M. (Author), Jensen, Steffen (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon;New York, NY : Routledge-Cavendish , c2009
Series:Law, development and globalization
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Online Access:NetLibrary
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The politics of Palestinian legal reform : judicial independence and accountability under occupation
  • 2. Traditional authority and localization of state law : the intricacies of boundary marking in policing rural Mozambique
  • 3. The vision of the state : audiences, enchantments and policing in South Africa
  • 4. Translating human rights in the margins : a police-migrant encounter in Johannesburg
  • 5. The special field force and Namibian ex-combatant "reintegration"
  • 6. On hangings and the dubious embodiment of statehood in Nigerian prisons
  • 7. Taking the snake out of the basket : Indian prison warders' opposition to human rights reform
  • 8. Community policing programmes as police human rights strategies in Costa Rica
  • 9. Commentary : the piggy-in-the-middle