Making further inquiries: policing in context in Brixton and Khayelitsha

Dixon, Bill (2015) Making further inquiries: policing in context in Brixton and Khayelitsha. South African Crime Quarterly, 53 . pp. 5-14. ISSN 1991-3877

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Abstract

Only rarely do inquiries into policing investigate the social context within which it takes place. This article looks at two inquiries which chose to take on this task: Lord Scarman’s into the Brixton Disorders in London in April 1981; and Justice Catherine O’Regan and Advocate Vusumzi Pikoli’s into the current state of policing in Khayelitsha in the Western Cape. It argues that they should be applauded for doing so but draws attention to how difficult it can be to persuade governments to address the deep-rooted social and economic problems associated with crises in policing rather than focus on reforming the police institution, its policies, procedures and practices.

Item Type: Article
RIS ID: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/982249
Schools/Departments: University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Sociology and Social Policy
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.4314/sacq.v53i1.1
Depositing User: Dixon, William
Date Deposited: 12 Feb 2016 09:09
Last Modified: 04 May 2020 20:07
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/31638

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