Shoot to Kill: Police and Power in South Africa - Christopher Mcmichael

Descriere Shoot to Kill: Police and Power in South Africa - Christopher Mcmichael

\n \nShoot to Kill: Police and Power in South Africa is a vivid and ambitious survey of the complex politics of security, crime and social control in South Africa.\n \nNearly three decades after the formal end of apartheid, policing in South Africa continues to be defined by brutality, incompetence and corruption.\n \nRather than protecting communities and ensuring justice for victims, the state and private security often enforce cruel wealth, racial and gender\n \ninequities. As our society becomes less safe and more divided, Shoot to Kill: Police and Power in South Africa asks how did the South African Police\n \nService (SAPS) become this way and are they our best chance for safety?\n \nFrom the slave-driver's whip in the 18th century Cape Colony to the dystopian armoured vehicles of our present, this book traces the secret\n \nhistory of the police through colonial wars, apartheid atrocities and hypercapitalist state capture. Featuring unapologetic critiques of elite power and\n \nthe stifling politics of fear, while informed by global discussions on police abolition, Shoot to Kill: Police and Power in South Africa calls for a society\n \nbased on democracy and justice. Author Christopher McMichael speaks to the realities of our world increasingly defined by militarised injustice and\n \noutlines ways we can escape from this rusty cage.\n

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Inkani Books

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9781776378791

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