The Politics of Police Reform: Society against the State in Post-Soviet Countries
Autor Erica Maraten Limba Engleză Hardback – 18 apr 2018
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780190861490
ISBN-10: 0190861495
Pagini: 264
Dimensiuni: 236 x 163 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0190861495
Pagini: 264
Dimensiuni: 236 x 163 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Recenzii
In her book, The Politics of Police Reform: Society against the State in Post-Soviet Countries (Oxford University Press, 2018), Erica Marat provides an answer to a very important question: "What does it take to reform a post-Soviet police force?"... The book is valuable reading for those following contemporary issues in Central Asia and the post-Soviet space, as well those interested broadly in the problems of police violence and the challenge of police reform.
The Politics of Police Reform is a significant contribution to the study of policing both within and beyond the former Soviet Union. Marat's local knowledge and expertise shine through the case studies, and the book is peppered with insights from interviews with local reformers, activists and officials. It will be of interest to anyone studying broader questions about the production of social order and the role of the police in society. This lucid, tightly argued and provocative book brings the conversation much further forward.
In this excellent and wide-ranging comparative study, Erica Marat shows that police reform should be understood as an ongoing and iterative process of negotiation between state and society about the limits of state power, rather than as a concrete set of institutional changes. This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to learn more about the stops and starts of post-Soviet police reform and the meaningful role that societal actors can and do play in this reform process.
Erica Marat has turned the cold light of her insightful analysis on two critical and interrelated problems, the role of extreme police violence in provoking police reform in autocratic states and the manner in which regime-centric, donor assistance can derail this democratic process. The book is an essential read for those concerned with civil society's struggle to transform authoritarian policing in former Soviet republics and in comparative regimes in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America.
Marat's study yields implications that should interest policing scholars outside the post-Soviet region. First, by operationalizing police reform as a process, and identifying two key variables that seem to inflect that process, she provides a theoretical framework that may be relevant as far afield as, say, debates about police in the United States.
Marat's notable contribution to the study of police reform is an emphasis on a bottom-up rather than top-down dynamic in the reform process. The book is strongly recommended for graduate students and researchers."
The Politics of Police Reform is a significant contribution to the study of policing both within and beyond the former Soviet Union. Marat's local knowledge and expertise shine through the case studies, and the book is peppered with insights from interviews with local reformers, activists and officials. It will be of interest to anyone studying broader questions about the production of social order and the role of the police in society. This lucid, tightly argued and provocative book brings the conversation much further forward.
In this excellent and wide-ranging comparative study, Erica Marat shows that police reform should be understood as an ongoing and iterative process of negotiation between state and society about the limits of state power, rather than as a concrete set of institutional changes. This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to learn more about the stops and starts of post-Soviet police reform and the meaningful role that societal actors can and do play in this reform process.
Erica Marat has turned the cold light of her insightful analysis on two critical and interrelated problems, the role of extreme police violence in provoking police reform in autocratic states and the manner in which regime-centric, donor assistance can derail this democratic process. The book is an essential read for those concerned with civil society's struggle to transform authoritarian policing in former Soviet republics and in comparative regimes in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America.
Marat's study yields implications that should interest policing scholars outside the post-Soviet region. First, by operationalizing police reform as a process, and identifying two key variables that seem to inflect that process, she provides a theoretical framework that may be relevant as far afield as, say, debates about police in the United States.
Marat's notable contribution to the study of police reform is an emphasis on a bottom-up rather than top-down dynamic in the reform process. The book is strongly recommended for graduate students and researchers."
Notă biografică
Erica Marat is an Associate Professor and Director of the Homeland Defense Fellowship Program at the College of International Security Affairs, National Defense University. Her research areas include policing, law enforcement, state violence, and social movements in former Soviet states. She is the author of The Military and the State in Central Asia: From Red Army to Independence.