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Despotism --- Torture --- Political crimes and offenses --- Police --- Death squads --- Despotisme --- Torture --- Crimes et délits politiques --- Police --- Escadrons de la mort
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"There is real personal danger for anthropologists who dare to speak and write against terror; by doing so, they potentially and sometimes actually bring the terror down on themselves."-Jeffrey A. Sluka, from the IntroductionDeath Squad is the first work to focus specifically on the anthropology of state terror. It brings together an international group of anthropologists who have done extensive research in areas marked by extreme forms of state violence and who have studied state terror from the perspective of victims and survivors. The book presents eight case studies from seven countries-Spain, India (Punjab and Kashmir), Argentina, Guatemala, Northern Ireland, Indonesia, and the Philippines-to demonstrate the cultural complexities and ambiguities of terror when viewed at the local level and from the participants' point of view. Contributors deal with such topics as the role of Loyalist death squads in the culture of terror in Northern Ireland, the three-tier mechanism of state terror in Indonesia, the complex role of religion in violence by both the state and insurgents in Punjab and Kashmir, and the ways in which "disappearances" are used to destabilize and demoralize opponents of the state in Argentina, Guatemala, and India.
Death squads. --- Terrorisme d'Etat --- Escadrons de la mort --- Répression politique --- Death squads --- Human rights --- Political persecution --- State-sponsored terrorism --- Terrorism --- 810 Theorie en Methode --- 841 Politiek bestel --- 854 Terrorisme --- Acts of terrorism --- Attacks, Terrorist --- Global terrorism --- International terrorism --- Political terrorism --- Terror attacks --- Terrorist acts --- Terrorist attacks --- World terrorism --- Direct action --- Insurgency --- Political crimes and offenses --- Subversive activities --- Political violence --- Terror --- Government violence --- Governmental violence --- State-sponsored violence --- State terrorism --- Violence, Governmental --- Violence, State-sponsored --- Political atrocities --- Political repression --- Repression, Political --- Persecution --- Civil rights --- Basic rights --- Civil rights (International law) --- Rights, Human --- Rights of man --- Human security --- Transitional justice --- Truth commissions --- Assassins --- Vigilance committees --- Law and legislation --- Human rights. --- Political persecution. --- State-sponsored terrorism. --- Terrorism. --- Terrorisme --- Droits de l'homme (Droit international) --- Répression politique --- Anthropology. --- Folklore. --- General. --- Human Rights. --- Law. --- Linguistics. --- Political Science. --- Social Science.
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Kano is a city where a multi-layered form of community policing was established in the era of the rollback of the state in social provisioning in the midst of ever-increasing armed banditry and crime. Between 1985 and 2005, vigilante groups were established in almost all the neighbourhoods of Kano with the support of the traditional authority and community leaders. However, government interference, political instrumentalisation and inadequate support undermined its critical rote. Part of the rationale for the Police Community Relations Committee (PCRC) in Sabongari lies not in the efficacy of such initiative in reducing the incidence of crime but to confer a sense of identity, control of crime and security. The contradiction in PCRC could be located in the pathological fixation of police on corruption, which alienated and depressed the public from providing valuable information for crime control. The activities of vigilante groups and Hisba have reduced the high rate of juvenile delinquency in metropolitan Kano. The litmus test for Hisba in the implementation of Sharia law would be how it could reconcile the social diversity in a multicultural society such as Kano to ensure security and social harmony. The study concludes that the gap between different forms of vigilante groups, conflicting political motivations and the near discordant relations with the police, produced a dysfunctional mechanism for crime control.
Vigilance committees --- Crime prevention --- Community policing --- Police-community relations --- Islamic law --- Social Welfare & Social Work --- Social Sciences --- Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency --- History --- Citizen participation --- Civil law (Islamic law) --- Law, Arab --- Law, Islamic --- Law in the Qurʼan --- Sharia (Islamic law) --- Shariʻah (Islamic law) --- Law, Oriental --- Law, Semitic --- Police --- Public relations --- Community-based policing --- Community-oriented policing --- COP (Community-oriented policing) --- Neighborhood policing --- Policing, Community --- Proximity policing --- Crime --- Prevention of crime --- Public safety --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Death squads --- Prevention --- Government policy --- police --- Kano --- délinquance --- Nigeria --- gated community --- violence --- criminalité
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