AUTOBIOGRAPHIES OF A SPECIAL KIND: Recent writings by and on the police in South Africa
| dc.contributor.author | Van der Spuy, Elrena | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-04-05T10:22:24Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-04-05T10:22:24Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2016-04-05T10:02:43Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | he occupational culture of police organisations has long fascinated policing scholars. In the Anglo- American world ethnographic enquiries have contributed much to our understanding of police perceptions, beliefs and actions. This article takes a closer look at efforts to describe and analyse police culture in South Africa. Three genres of writings are considered. Structural accounts of police culture and ethnographic accounts of the police are briefly discussed before turning to a more detailed consideration of a third and emerging genre: police autobiographies. Two recent autobiographies written by former policemen are explored in some detail with the view to considering the contribution of the autobiography to our understanding of the complex occupational dynamics of police and policing in South Africa. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier | http://dx.doi.org/ttp://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2413-3108/2013/v0i46a808 | |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Van der Spuy, E. (2014). AUTOBIOGRAPHIES OF A SPECIAL KIND: Recent writings by and on the police in South Africa. <i>South African Crime Quarterly</i>, http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18570 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Van der Spuy, Elrena "AUTOBIOGRAPHIES OF A SPECIAL KIND: Recent writings by and on the police in South Africa." <i>South African Crime Quarterly</i> (2014) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18570 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Van Der Spuy, E. (2014). Autobiographies of a Special Kind: Recent writings by and on the police in South Africa. South African Crime Quarterly, 46, 13-22. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2413-3108 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Journal Article AU - Van der Spuy, Elrena AB - he occupational culture of police organisations has long fascinated policing scholars. In the Anglo- American world ethnographic enquiries have contributed much to our understanding of police perceptions, beliefs and actions. This article takes a closer look at efforts to describe and analyse police culture in South Africa. Three genres of writings are considered. Structural accounts of police culture and ethnographic accounts of the police are briefly discussed before turning to a more detailed consideration of a third and emerging genre: police autobiographies. Two recent autobiographies written by former policemen are explored in some detail with the view to considering the contribution of the autobiography to our understanding of the complex occupational dynamics of police and policing in South Africa. DA - 2014 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town J1 - South African Crime Quarterly LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2014 SM - 2413-3108 T1 - AUTOBIOGRAPHIES OF A SPECIAL KIND: Recent writings by and on the police in South Africa TI - AUTOBIOGRAPHIES OF A SPECIAL KIND: Recent writings by and on the police in South Africa UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18570 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18570 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://journals.assaf.org.za/index.php/sacq/article/view/808 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Van der Spuy E. AUTOBIOGRAPHIES OF A SPECIAL KIND: Recent writings by and on the police in South Africa. South African Crime Quarterly. 2014; http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18570. | en_ZA |
| dc.language | eng | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher | Academy of Science of South Africa | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.department | Department of Public Law | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Law | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) | * |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_ZA |
| dc.source | South African Crime Quarterly | en_ZA |
| dc.source.uri | http://journals.assaf.org.za/index.php/sacq | |
| dc.subject.other | Police | |
| dc.subject.other | SAPS | |
| dc.subject.other | police culture | |
| dc.subject.other | South Africa | |
| dc.subject.other | police autobiographies | |
| dc.title | AUTOBIOGRAPHIES OF A SPECIAL KIND: Recent writings by and on the police in South Africa | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Journal Article | en_ZA |
| uct.type.filetype | Text | |
| uct.type.filetype | Image | |
| uct.type.publication | Research | en_ZA |
| uct.type.resource | Article | en_ZA |