Police and the Policed Language and Power Relations on the Margins of the Global South /

• Main Author: Watson, Danielle (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Police.; Crime-Sociological aspects.; Crime prevention.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Sociolinguistics.; Victimology.; Policing.; Crime and Society.; Crime Prevention.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.

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 th...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Policing Marginalized Communities in the Global South - Examining Contextual Realities
• 3. Community Profiles - Initial Thoughts on Positioning the Police and the Policed
• 4. Assigning the Brand - Police Labelling and its Impact on Police/Community Relations
• 5. Branding Babylon - How the Policed see the Police
• 6. Police Typecasting and the Power Dichotomy
• 7. Stigmatizing and Stereotyping the Police: Communicative Realities for the Policed
• 8. Negotiating Labels, Stigmas and Stereotypes - Discussions for the Future of Policing.