RT Article
T1 Policing with new habits: how the Covid-19 lockdown fostered a harm reduction ethos in Durban
JF Routledge international handbook of policing crises and emergencies
SP 150
OP 160
A1 Marks, Monique
A1 Wood, Jennifer D.
A2 Wood, Jennifer D.
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1940656753
AB This chapter examines the rise of new policing habits in Durban, South Africa, that give life to harm reduction principles and practices. It situates this development within a moment of crisis and tragedy in the world—the Covid-19 pandemic. During the period of a ‘hard lockdown’ in the city, politicians, police, and non-government actors created safe spaces to protect the health, human rights, and dignity of the homeless population involved in opioid drug use. Drawing on Chan’s treatment of police culture as the product of an interaction between the structural ‘field’ of policing and the ‘habitus’, the chapter examines the imperative to police differently in this ‘Durban moment’ and the ensuing shifts in everyday policing practices. It reflects on what might sustain this novel form of harm reduction policing beyond the pandemic crisis.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 159-160
SN 9781032207872