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Living with non-state policing in South Africa: the issues and dilemmas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2002

Bruce Baker
Bruce Baker
Affiliation:
African Studies Centre, School of International Studies and Law, Coventry University, UK. I am most grateful to the two anonymous referees who made valuable suggestions to a previous draft of this article.
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Abstract

Though policing is widely regarded as an inherently public good, in reality non-state policing is widespread in South Africa, doing everything that the public police force does. The paper examines the extent, nature and attitudes towards non-state policing in South Africa in its different forms, that is, autonomous citizen responses, ‘responsible’ citizen responses and commercial private security. The paper concludes by assessing the social and political implications of non-state policing.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Modern African Studies , Volume 40 , Issue 1 , March 2002 , pp. 29 - 53
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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