RT Article
T1 From the point of a gun to the point of starvation: economic conscription in post-conflict policing
JF International journal of comparative and applied criminal justice
VO 43
IS 4
SP 341
OP 355
A1 Wozniak, Jesse S.G.
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1754726372
AB A central aspect of post-conflict policing literature holds that the new force must differentiate itself from its predecessor. In the efforts to democratize Iraqi police, trainers and recruits alike espouse lofty ideals regarding who should join and how police should behave. However, these ideals are directly contradicted by low qualification levels and the public behavior of police. Drawing from an intensive ethnographic study of police training in the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), I argue that while having broken from the forced conscription of the Hussein era, the new force is staffed by economic conscription, comprised of reluctant volunteers who joined to escape poverty and receive little training on the new responsibilities of democratic police. While the methods of conscription have changed, the results remain the same - a force comprised largely of people who do not want to be police and who do not respect the rights of citizens.
K1 Police reconstruction
K1 economic conscription
K1 Neo-liberalism
K1 Iraq
DO 10.1080/01924036.2019.1602548