State violence and human rights state officials in the south

Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-198) and index.

The politics of Palestinian legal reform : judicial independence and accountability under occupation / Tobias Kelly -- Traditional authority and localization of state law : the intricacies of boundary marking in policing rural Mozambique / Helene Maria Kyed -- The vision of the state : audiences, enchantments and policing in South Africa / Steffen Jensen -- Translating human rights in the margins : a police-migrant encounter in Johannesburg / Julia Hornberger -- The special field force and Namibian ex-combatant "reintegration" / Lalli Metsola -- On hangings and the dubious embodiment of statehood in Nigerian prisons / Andrew M. Jefferson -- Taking the snake out of the basket : Indian prison warders' opposition to human rights reform / Tomas Martin -- Community policing programmes as police human rights strategies in Costa Rica / Quirine Eijkman -- Commentary : the piggy-in-the-middle / Mike Brogden.