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Routledge Police Work and Identity: South African Ethnography

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This ethnographic study explores the lives and experiences of police officers in contemporary South Africa, offering insight into how they construct meaning from their work and navigate their professional identities. Drawing on extensive original fieldwork, the book examines the personal narratives and worldviews that shape policing practices, revealing how everyday ambitions and self-perceptions among officers connect to broader patterns of abuse and institutional challenges in transitional societies. Rather than treating misconduct as isolated incidents, the author traces these dynamics to the lived realities of individual officers, their interpretations of duty, and the social pressures they face. The work demonstrates how police officers' internal stories and understandings of their roles directly influence the kind of order they produce through their daily work. Essential reading for scholars of policing, security studies, criminology, and anthropology seeking to understand institutional behaviour beyond formal policy frameworks.

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This Routledge Studies in Crime, Security and Justice volume uses ethnographic fieldwork to examine police officer experiences in South Africa.

The book investigates how personal narratives and self-perceptions among police officers shape institutional practices and patterns of misconduct.

It traces connections between individual officer ambitions and the structural challenges facing transitional policing regimes.

The ethnography reveals how officers' everyday interpretations of duty and social positioning influence the order they create through their work.

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hardcover
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Amazon UK
Release Date
04 September 2017
Listed Since
09 July 2016

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