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SOCI8018

Policing in comparative perspective

Offer semester
Lecture time
Lecture venue
Credits awarded

Unavailable this year

6

  • This course examines policing in a broad social and cultural perspective. Our focus is the concept of the “police function”: under what sorts of historical and socio-cultural conditions does the idea of the police function make sense? With this question as our guide, we will examine the maintenance of order in stateless societies, look at various historical moments in the emergence of police as an element of modern government, and finally take a survey of the novel policing formations emerging from the processes of decolonization, globalization and neo-liberalism.


  • Tasks

    Weighting

    Coursework

    100%


  • To be confirmed subject to the selected topic.

Offer Semester
Lecture Day
Lecture Time
Venue
Credits awarded
Unavailable this year
6
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