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South Africa boasts the largest private security sector in the entire world, reflecting deep anxieties about violence, security, and governance. This book shows how their policing practices simultaneously undermine and support the state, resulting in actions that are neither public nor private, but something in between, something "twilight".

Twilight Policing Private Security and Violence

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    Publisher: University of California Press
    Publication Date: 11/20/2015 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780520287341, 978-0520287341
    ISBN10: 0520287347
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    Description

    Book Synopsis
    South Africa boasts the largest private security sector in the entire world, reflecting deep anxieties about violence, security, and governance. This book shows how their policing practices simultaneously undermine and support the state, resulting in actions that are neither public nor private, but something in between, something "twilight".

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