Policing and the Limits of the Political Imagination in Postcolonial Nigeria
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4824697 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Samuel Fury Childs Daly (0000-0002-5475-1534) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 2020 |
| Issue | 137 |
| Pages | 193-198 |
| Publication date | 2020-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Radical History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-6545 • E-ISSN: 1534-1453 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/01636545-8092858 |
| OpenAlex | W3033162387 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 14 |
Nigeria's police forces are famously ineffective and unpopular. Police agencies carry the dual stigma of having colonial origins and close connections to the military dictatorships that ruled Nigeria in its first forty years of independence. Despite their poor reputation, there is little political will to reform policing and virtually none to abolish it. This piece traces how the police are embedded in Nigerian society and politics, in order to understand why widespread dislike of a police force does not necessarily lead to calls for its dissolution
Business · Colonialism · Criminology · Democracy · Dictatorship · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Reputation · Sociology · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Law · Policing Practices and Perceptions · Psychology · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |