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We are all equal: politics of very important people blue light security in South Africa

Frontiers in Political Science
South Africa is globally rated as the most unequal society, which does not conform to democratic principles. Inequality is perpetuated by uneven security provisions at the behest of the state, which entrenches elitism.
Mashimane Njabulo Maphumulo, Mfundo Mandla Masuku   +1 more
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Migrant success in UK Education: Are there lessons for government social mobility policy?

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The school achievement and career aspirations of 23 sixth form students at a multi‐cultural urban academy in the UK are explored through interviews. The sample includes 16 s‐generation migrants, 6 UK‐born students with migrant parents and 1 UK‐born student, selected to represent a cohort of over 300 post‐16 learners.
Bernard Barker, Kate Hoskins
wiley   +1 more source

Why Police Kill: An Investigation into the Causes of and Solutions to Law Enforcement's Excessive Use of Lethal Force [PDF]

, 2021
Lethal force, and the debate surrounding its legitimacy, has been an impassioned part of society in the United States for decades. With over 600 civilian lives taken every year by police officers, the issue of police-involved homicides is at the ...
Hertzer, Margo
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Police, politicians and the regulation of drug trafficking in Latin America [PDF]

, 2016
How do states regulate drug trafficking? The sale of illicit drugs generates an estimated US$870 billion per year – more than 1 percent of global GDP. At the same time, hundreds of thousands of people die annually from drug-related violence and ensuing
Flom, Hernan
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Faire ou non confiance aux gestionnaires du risque ?

Territoire en Mouvement, 2007
The confidence or trust that the people and institutions responsible for managing territorial risk inspire in the individuals subjected to this risk is an important factor in the analysis of territorial vulnerability because low confidence levels, or ...
Hervé Flanquart, Anne-Peggy Hellequin, Pascal Vallet   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Consolidating ‘traditional methods’ of public order policing: the response of the Home Office and the Metropolitan Police to mass demonstrations in 1968 [PDF]

This article examines the response of the Home Office and the Metropolitan Police to mass demonstrations in 1968. Using a variety of contemporaneous sources, including underused archival material, documents released through freedom of information ...
St John, J.
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Between soft power and suspicion: Chinese international students as diasporic actors in U.S.‐China geopolitical tensions

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines the under‐theorized political role and identity of Chinese international students, who emerge as significant actors caught between U.S. soft power ambitions and rising geopolitical suspicion. Amid escalating U.S.‐China tensions, these students are forced to confront environments shaped by competing geopolitical discourses ...
Jing Yu
wiley   +1 more source

Micro-Sociological Dynamics of Repression: How Interactions between Protesters and Security Forces Shaped the Bahraini Uprising

Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies, 2019
The article applies a micro-sociological approach to investigate civil-military relations in a very concrete form: How do interactions between protesters and security forces shape the development of a conflict?
Isabel Bramsen
doaj   +1 more source

How police officers in England and Wales learn to construct and report 'official reality' [PDF]

This research examines the way police officers learn to make sense of, and report, 'official reality'. 100 in-depth, tape recorded interviews were carried out with police officers at various stages of service including probationers, Tutor Constables ...
Owen, Clive John
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English teachers' journeys since the 2020 Iteration of Black Lives Matter

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The 2020 resurgence of Black Lives Matter (BLM) mobilised students in England to demand greater representation of racially minoritised voices in English curriculums—a call highlighted by stark inequity: just 1.5% of GCSE texts studied are by racially minoritised authors, despite racially minoritised students comprising 38.0% of the student ...
Adrian Fernandes
wiley   +1 more source