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‘Thieves Should not Live Amongst People’: Under-Protection and Popular Support for Police Violence in Nairobi (2022)
Journal Article
Wairuri, K. (2022). ‘Thieves Should not Live Amongst People’: Under-Protection and Popular Support for Police Violence in Nairobi. African affairs; journal of the Royal African Society, 121(482), 61-79. https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adac006

This paper examines how communities at the urban margins, who are under-protected by the state police, understand police reforms through an examination of the unusual case of street protests in support of a police officer who had killed two young men... Read More about ‘Thieves Should not Live Amongst People’: Under-Protection and Popular Support for Police Violence in Nairobi.

Andrew Faull, Police Work and Identity: a South African ethnography. Abingdon: Routledge (hb £115 – 978 1 138 23329 4). 2018, xxix + 200 pp. (2020)
Journal Article
Wairuri, K. (2020). Andrew Faull, Police Work and Identity: a South African ethnography. Abingdon: Routledge (hb £115 – 978 1 138 23329 4). 2018, xxix + 200 pp. Africa, 90(4), 799-800. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0001972020000388

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