The dialectic of police reform in Nigeria
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4253340 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alice Hills (0000-0003-4923-0571, University of Leeds, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 215-234 |
| Publication date | 2008-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Modern African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-278X • E-ISSN: 1469-7777 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022278x08003200 |
| OpenAlex | W2051875040 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 35 |
| References cited | 11 |
Despite decades of police assistance and the recent introduction of reform plans, Nigeria's public police remain notoriously brutal and corrupt. This raises the question of whether even flawed reforms in a relatively democratic environment can make a significant difference to policing standards and practices. Based on developments in the Nigeria Police since 2005, this article suggests that reform can make a normative and organisational difference, but that in the absence of fundamental socio-political change, its effects tend to be superficial, localised and temporary. Reform's dynamic is better understood as a classic dialectic than a serial succession of movements
Democracy · Dialectic · Epistemology · Language change · Normative · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Law · Policing Practices and Perceptions · Public Administration
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| Unique citing works | 35 |
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| Citations per year | 2,06 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2024 (16) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 29 |