Contested governance: police and gang interactions

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dc.contributor.advisorShearing, Clifford Den_ZA
dc.contributor.advisorVan der Spuy, Elrenaen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorKinnes, Irvinen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2017-09-23T06:32:51Z
dc.date.available2017-09-23T06:32:51Z
dc.date.issued2017en_ZA
dc.description.abstractGangs in Cape Town have long been associated with high levels of violence and police efforts on the Cape Flats, while state agencies have not yet been able to bring any significant relief to the affected communities or growing gang structures. It seems the conventional approaches need reconceptualization. This thesis explores a nodal governance approach to the forms and consequences associated with the policing of gangs by police. Developments in governance theory has brought new insights for our understanding of how state and non-state actors relate in and across different networks, and especially within the security governance networks. However, such research has failed to consider how gangs and police interact and regulate each other through their own governance and conflict with one another. In attempts by the police to govern gangs (and by extension the community), a state of contested governance arises between gangs and police nodes of power. This thesis argues that contrary to previous understandings, the organised gangs of Cape Town regulate and impact the way the police police gangs, which in turn affects the way gangs police themselves, and goes on to explore these interactions.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationKinnes, I. (2017). <i>Contested governance: police and gang interactions</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Law ,Institute of Criminology. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/25344en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationKinnes, Irvin. <i>"Contested governance: police and gang interactions."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Law ,Institute of Criminology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/25344en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationKinnes, I. 2017. Contested governance: police and gang interactions. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Kinnes, Irvin AB - Gangs in Cape Town have long been associated with high levels of violence and police efforts on the Cape Flats, while state agencies have not yet been able to bring any significant relief to the affected communities or growing gang structures. It seems the conventional approaches need reconceptualization. This thesis explores a nodal governance approach to the forms and consequences associated with the policing of gangs by police. Developments in governance theory has brought new insights for our understanding of how state and non-state actors relate in and across different networks, and especially within the security governance networks. However, such research has failed to consider how gangs and police interact and regulate each other through their own governance and conflict with one another. In attempts by the police to govern gangs (and by extension the community), a state of contested governance arises between gangs and police nodes of power. This thesis argues that contrary to previous understandings, the organised gangs of Cape Town regulate and impact the way the police police gangs, which in turn affects the way gangs police themselves, and goes on to explore these interactions. DA - 2017 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2017 T1 - Contested governance: police and gang interactions TI - Contested governance: police and gang interactions UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/25344 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/25344
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationKinnes I. Contested governance: police and gang interactions. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Law ,Institute of Criminology, 2017 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/25344en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentInstitute of Criminologyen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Lawen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherCriminologyen_ZA
dc.titleContested governance: police and gang interactionsen_ZA
dc.typeDoctoral Thesis
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoral
dc.type.qualificationnamePhDen_ZA
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