Policing in the Global South

Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel

Session Description

This panel explores policing across three different settings: Brazil, Colombia, and India. The topics covered include support for militarized policing, the deployment of newly trained forces, the establishment of segregated police stations for minorities, as well as the consequences of increasing female police personnel. Four papers using a range of research designs highlight important questions being discussed in political science about how citizens perceive as well as experience law enforcement in the Global South.

Sub Unit

• Division 11: Comparative Politics

Individual Presentations

• Motorized and More Motivated? Militarized Patrols and Crime in Ceará, Brasil - Michael Lee Weintraub, Universidad de los Andes

• Coethnicity and Cops: The Impact of Caste-Segregated Police Stations in India - Nirvikar Jassal, London School of Economics

• Seeing Gender: Representation, State Capacity, and Police Reform in India - Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner, University of Virginia

Chair

• Nirvikar Jassal London School of Economics

Discussant

• Carl Müller-Crepon London School of Economics and Political Science