Private security, political economy and the policing of race: Probing global hypotheses through the case of South Africa

Theoretical Criminology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 333-354

  Kempa, Michael ^a   Singh, Anne Marie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

class and race conflict; policing culture; political economy; private security

Indexed keywords

EID: 47949128619     PISSN: 13624806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1362480608093310     Document Type: Article

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