Police Corruption and Police Reforms in Developing Societies

ISBN-13: 9780367598136 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 248 str.

Kempe Ronald Hope Sr

Opis

This book provides critical analyses of the extent and nature of police corruption and misconduct in developing societies. It examines police reform measures that have been implemented or are still necessary to control and mitigate police corruption, relating lessons learned from police reform efforts in Africa, Asia, the Pacific, Latin A

Spis treści

THEORETICAL AND ANALYTICAL PERSPECTIVES. An Analytical Perspective on Police Corruption and Police Reforms in Developing Societies. Confronting Police Corruption in Developing Societies: The Role of the Rule of Law. Emphasizing Anticorruption Training as a Reform Tool to Curb Police Corruption in Developing Societies. DEVELOPING SOCIETIES CASE STUDIES: AFRICA. Ghana: Reducing Police Corruption and Promoting Police Professionalism through Reforms. Kenya: Police Corruption and Reforms to Control It. South Africa: A Schizophrenic System for Combating the Scourge of Police Corruption. Cameroon: Police Corruption and the Police Reforms Imperative. DEVELOPING SOCIETIES CASE STUDIES: ASIA-PACIFIC. Hong Kong: Police Corruption and Reforms. India: Nature of Police Corruption and Its Remedies. Royal Solomon Islands: Rainbows across the Mountains?—The Issue of Police Corruption. DEVELOPING SOCIETIES CASE STUDIES: LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN. Argentina: Revisiting Police Corruption and Police Reforms in a Captive State. Trinidad and Tobago: Crime, Police Corruption, and Police Reforms.

O autorze

Kempe Ronald Hope, Sr., formerly with the United Nations, is the Director of the Policy Division at Development Practice International, Oakville, Ontario, Canada. He has been a technical adviser to several governments on anticorruption policy, including the development of national anticorruption plans and police anticorruption and reform strategies. He has also been a professor of development studies at several universities in North America, Africa, and the Caribbean. He has published many books on the subjects of governance, policy, corruption, and development, particularly in Africa and the Caribbean.