Essays about: "south African Police"

Found 5 essays containing the words south African Police.

1. 1. Informed in and through difference: The perspectives of Johannesburg's suburban reservists and their role in the SAPS

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Claudia Forster-Towne; [2013]
   Keywords : Police; reservist; inequalities; articulated categories; subjectivity; South Africa; Johannesburg; South African Police Service; SAPS; identity; inequality regime; situated psychoanalysis; bio-power; gender; race; class; Social Sciences; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : Despite a fair amount of academic attention being afforded to the South African Police Service (SAPS), one actor within it has been constantly ignored. Considering reservists make in excess of 15% of the overall policing staff (albeit only as temporary staff) in Gauteng this gap is surprising. READ MORE

3. 2. Healing from hate-crime in an unsafe and exposed position : Black lesbian women in South Africa

   University essay from Institutionen för socialvetenskap

   Author : Sara Malmberg; Calle Dahlström; [2012]
   Keywords : Hate-crime; ”corrective rape”; rape; healing; trauma; lesbian; South Africa;

   Abstract : In March 2011 the South African government agreed to address the issue of “corrective rape” due to a petition made by a lesbian activist group. The knowledge of how many women that are raped in South Africa because of their sexual orientation is impossible to achieve since the South African police do not make any distinctions of the motive behind the rape when it is reported. READ MORE

4. 3. Building trust : The contradiction between security and democracy in post Apartheid South Africa

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för socialt arbete, SA

   Author : Magnus Persson; [2011]
   Keywords : South Africa; militarization; community policing; paramilitary policing; SAPS; social capital; police reform.;

   Abstract : Abstract Title: Building Trust: The contradiction between security and democracy in post apartheid South Africa Author: Magnus Persson Supervisor: Svante Lundberg This paper aims to investigate the contradiction between security and democracy in post-apartheid South African policing, and was executed on the field together with the South African Police Service (SAPS). The theoretical point of departure is that trust between people, in relation to the institutions of society, is fundamental to democratic development. READ MORE

5. 4. If it bleads, it leads : A study of crimereporting in the South African print media

   University essay from Örebro universitet/Humanistiska institutionen

   Author : Ewa Nylander; [2008]
   Keywords : media; crime; print media; jornalist; South Africa; objective; news; reporting; interview; text analysis; newspaper; brottsjournalistik; media; journalism; nyhetsraportering; Sydafrika; intervjuer; textanalys; tidningar;

   Abstract : The purpose of the study is to examine weather the South African print media do pictures crime reporting objective. The aim is also to bring fourth if crime reporting is visualized differently in regional newspapers compared to newspapers in metropolitan areas. READ MORE

6. 5. Service or Violence? Or A Violent Service : A fieldwork based study on the change in attitudes towards the use of force within the South African Police Service analysed using the community concept

   University essay from Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

   Author : Rebecca Blum; [2005]
   Keywords : South Africa; policing; SAPS; community; social change; violence; conflict;

   Abstract : This paper concerns the changes in attitudes towards the use of force within the South African police force after democratisation. The paper debates the current approaches towards the analysis of violence and a new theory on community and conflict management is developed. READ MORE