Alice Hills
What is policeness? On being police in Somalia
Hills, Alice
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Abstract
This article uses the notion of policeness to explore the essence of what police are, what makes for a police and what makes it recognized as such. Western ideas of police are based on a specific understanding of what a police organization is, but this is not necessarily the case in the global South. Based on the experience of Somalia’s police forces, it appears that while there is something universally distinctive about police organizations, police are best understood as a project reflecting political and social processes within unequal fields of power. Ultimately, policeness, which alludes to the symbolic and coercive functions associated with police, is a matter of perception.
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Hills, A. (2014). What is policeness? On being police in Somalia. The British Journal of Criminology: An International Review of Crime and Society, 54(5), 765-783. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azu049
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Online Publication Date | Jul 13, 2014 |
Publication Date | Sep 1, 2014 |
Deposit Date | Jul 21, 2014 |
Publicly Available Date | Mar 29, 2024 |
Journal | British Journal of Criminology |
Print ISSN | 0007-0955 |
Electronic ISSN | 1464-3529 |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 54 |
Issue | 5 |
Pages | 765-783 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azu049 |
Keywords | Coercion, Police culture, Policeness, Security, Somalia. |
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This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in British Journal of Criminology following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Hills, Alice (2014) 'What is policeness? On being police in Somalia.', British journal of criminology, 54, 5, 765-783 is available online at: http://bjc.oxfordjournals.org/content/54/5/765.
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