Overview
Examines how language shapes police-civilian relations in Trinidad and Tobago
Offers a multidisciplinary exploration
Speaks to those in Sociology, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Political Science and Linguistics
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This book examines communication between police and residents of a designated crime ‘hotspot’ community in the Global South. It looks at communicative realities within a marginalised community in the twin island republic of Trinidad and Tobago and explores how police and the individuals that they police purposefully assign categories to each other before, during and after interactions. It also examines the relations between the police and the community and how power is manifested through authored or assigned labels, stigmas and stereotypes. Overall, it suggests alternative strategies to address problematic police and community relations and provides another standpoint from which communicative redress between police and residents of marginalized communities in the Global South can be approached.
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Book Title: Police and the Policed
Book Subtitle: Language and Power Relations on the Margins of the Global South
Authors: Danielle Watson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00883-3
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-00882-6Published: 25 October 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-00883-3Published: 11 October 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 138
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Policing, Crime and Society, Crime Prevention, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Sociolinguistics, Victimology