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Provisional Authority: Police, Order, and Security in India
Beatrice Jauregui
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Description for Provisional Authority: Police, Order, and Security in India
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JKSW1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 272.
Policing as a global form is often fraught with excessive violence, corruption, and even criminalization. These sorts of problems are especially omnipresent in postcolonial nations such as India, where Beatrice Jauregui has spent several years studying the day-to-day lives of police officers in its most populous state, Uttar Pradesh. In this book, she offers an empirically rich and theoretically innovative look at the great puzzle of police authority in contemporary India and its relationship to social order, democratic politics, and security. Jauregui explores the paradoxical demands placed on Indian police, who are at once routinely charged with abuses of authority ... Read more
Policing as a global form is often fraught with excessive violence, corruption, and even criminalization. These sorts of problems are especially omnipresent in postcolonial nations such as India, where Beatrice Jauregui has spent several years studying the day-to-day lives of police officers in its most populous state, Uttar Pradesh. In this book, she offers an empirically rich and theoretically innovative look at the great puzzle of police authority in contemporary India and its relationship to social order, democratic politics, and security. Jauregui explores the paradoxical demands placed on Indian police, who are at once routinely charged with abuses of authority ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226403700
SKU
V9780226403700
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About Beatrice Jauregui
Beatrice Jauregui is assistant professor at the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto. She is coeditor of the Handbook of Global Policing and Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency, the latter published by the University of Chicago Press.
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