RT Article
T1 Baptist policing in Burma: swarming, vigilantism or community self-help?
JF Policing and society
VO 30
IS 6
SP 688
OP 703
A1 Ko Ko, Naing
A2 Braithwaite, John
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1798315777
AB This is a study of how vacuums in state services attract alternative providers. Christian churches in Kachin state engage in police work to tackle drug markets in response to heavy participation of state police in those markets and limited police interest in regulating them. Churches aim to induce democratisation of the police and responsiveness of the police to the rule of law. They have arrested police and helped catalyse many dozens of prosecutions of police for drug offences or drug-related corruption in Kachin state. Baptist police in the Golden Triangle use nonviolent swarming as an alternative to carrying arms when arresting heavily armed drug kingpins, police and military, and when seizing drugs.
K1 Baptist policing
K1 Policing
K1 Burma
K1 Myanmar
DO 10.1080/10439463.2019.1585849