Typologies of partnership policing: case studies from urban South Africa

Diphoorn, Tessa; Berg, J.Th.J. van den

doi:10.1080/10439463.2013.864500

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“…Various companies conduct regular crime analyses and instruct their armed response officers to patrol areas with higher levels of criminal activity. This is especially the case for companies that work closely with the public police, a relationship that is primarily based on social networks between company employees and police officers (Diphoorn and Berg 2014).…”

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Twilight Policing: Private Security Practices in South Africa

Diphoorn¹

2015

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Many studies have emphasized the pluralization of policing and the interactions between security providers. However, such studies generally employ a top-down and structural approach, emphasizing the organizational ties between policing bodies. This article employs an ethnographic approach to security and focuses on localized policing performances that materialize from the interactions between security providers. Based on 20 months of ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Durban, South Africa, this article introduces the concept of twilight policing, which refers to punitive, disciplinary and exclusionary policing practices that simultaneously undermine and support the state, resulting in actions that are neither public nor private, but 'twilight'. This article calls for a shift from a plural and organizational approach to policing towards a 'twilight' and performative one.

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Twilight Policing: Private Security Practices in South Africa

Diphoorn¹

2015

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“…Accordingly, we want to expand the "junior partner" model in two specifi c ways. First, the "junior partner" model does not encapsulate multifaceted forms of partnering and tends to regard interactions as rather clear-cut and concise (Diphoorn and Berg 2014). We want to include complexity by showing that there is room for negotiation in the implementation of policing partnerships in Nairobi.…”

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"Eyes, Ears, and Wheels"

Colona

Diphoorn

2017

Conflict and Society

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Research on policing in Africa has provided tremendous insight into how non-state actors, such as gangs, vigilantes, private security companies, and community initiatives, increasingly provide security for urban dwellers across the continent. Consequently, the state has been categorized as one order among many whose authority is co-constituted through relations with other actors. Drawing on our ethnographic fieldwork in the past two years, we highlight how the state police dominates security arrangements in Nairobi and asserts itself not just as one order among many. We show how, in various policing partnerships between police, private security companies, and residents’ associations, the state police acts as a coagulating agent of such practices. In order to elucidate this relationship, we utilize the “junior partner” model from the criminology literature and expand based on the community policing initiatives that in Nairobi act as the “eyes, ears, and wheels” of the police.

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“…These various forms of social capital are unquestionably related to cultural capital; contacts from the past are often intertwined with experiences from the past. In most of the studies on policing partnerships, the sharing of crime intelligence and information has been identified as the key form of potential collaboration (Diphoorn and Berg, 2014; Hummer and Nalla, 2003; Shearing et al, 1980). Crime intelligence and other forms of data are a type of cultural capital, which Dupont (2004: 86) defines as the ‘aggregate of knowledge and expertise’ at the individual and collective level.…”

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Securitizing capital: A processual-relational approach to pluralized security

Diphoorn

Grassiani

2016

Theoretical Criminology

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In this article, we introduce the concept of ‘securitizing capital’ as a new analytical tool to understand the pluralized landscape of security. We define securitizing capital as a process whereby different forms of capital are, consciously and unconsciously, used to acquire legitimacy and power. While other approaches have been developed to understand pluralized security, such as security networks, nodal frameworks and assemblages, we argue that, useful as they are, they tend to overlook issues of agency, how relationships are established and negotiated and the subjective experiences of security. In contrast, we introduce a processual-relational approach that is based on the translation and conversion of other types of capital, such as economic and social, to acquire a position of power within a specific (security) ‘field’. In order to elaborate on our approach and its relevance, we draw on fieldwork conducted in Kenya, Jamaica and Israel.

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Typologies of partnership policing: case studies from urban South Africa

Cited by 17 publications

References 13 publications

Twilight Policing: Private Security Practices in South Africa

Twilight Policing: Private Security Practices in South Africa

"Eyes, Ears, and Wheels"

Securitizing capital: A processual-relational approach to pluralized security

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