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Cross, Charlotte
(2024).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429282348-85
Abstract
This chapter reviews efforts to improve policing, referring to practices aimed at maintaining order, as part of development initiatives. It considers Security Sector Reform (SSR), community policing and attempts to engage with policing providers beyond the state police. In outlining key critical perspectives on such endeavours, the chapter emphasises the parallels between interventions aimed at improving policing and those in other sectors of international development policy and practice, including the limitations of attempts to impose standardised templates on diverse contexts and the politics of development at different scales. In addition to being the subject of international development interventions, policing is important as it can influence how development is defined and pursued, and who benefits from it and who does not. Thus, the chapter concludes by considering the policing of development and how it is negotiated and resisted.
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