Policing the Global South provides scholarship which further transnationalise and democratise ideas about policing practices and philosophies, highlighting renovations in approaches to policing studies, and injecting innovative perspectives into the study of policing from scholars positioned on the 'periphery'.

Danielle Watson is Senior Lecturer at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. She conducts research on police-civilian relations on the margins with interests in hotspot policing, police recruitment and training, as well as many other areas specific to policing in developing-country contexts.

Sara N. Amin is Senior Lecturer of Sociology at the University of the South Pacific, Fiji. Her research focuses on the areas of migration dynamics, identity politics, gender relations, religion, and education. She is also engaged in the scholarship of transformative pedagogy.

Wendell C. Wallace is an English-trained Barrister, Certified Mediator with the Mediation Board of Trinidad and Tobago, and a Criminologist who lectures on the Criminology and Criminal Justice programme at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. His research interests include policing, gangs, violence (domestic and school) and education-related issues.

Oluwagbenga (Michael) Akinlabi is Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northumbria University, UK. He has a PhD in criminology and criminal justice from Griffith University in Australia and an MPhil in criminological research from the University of Cambridge, UK. Michael's research explores police-citizen relations in the Global South.

Juan Carlos Ruiz-Vásquez is Professor in the Faculty of International Political and Urban Studies at the Universidad del Rosario in Bogotá, Colombia. His research revolves around citizen security and policing in transitional societies in Latin America. He has served as an instructor on policing the regional training programme funded by the Inter-American Bank of Development.

Introduction

Chapter 1- Policing the Global South-- colonial legacies, pluralities, partnerships and reform

Part 1 - Acknowledging colonial legacies and their impact on policing

Chapter 2- Bringing empire back in: Unaccountable public violence, sovereignty and the rule of difference in Latin America

Chapter 3- Post-coloniality as lenses that reveal day-to-day police practices in Brazil and Mexico

Chapter 4- Modalities of policing in contemporary Brazil

Chapter 5- 'VIP Culture' and the provision of policing and security in postcolonial Karachi

Chapter 6- From Barefoot Policeman to Policeman as President: An Overview of the Institutional Development of the Colombian Police Force

Part 2: Navigating plural regulatory systems and policing partnerships

Chapter 7- Serving God, the Community and the State: Policing in Tuvalu

Chapter 8- Police, Private Security, and "Patitos": The Market for Security in Mexico City

Chapter 9- Plural Policing in Crisis: Inclusive security provision in violent and unequal societies

Chapter 10- Balancing the scale: Police officers' perspectives on plural policing in the Solomon Islands

Part 3 - Access to justice, community perceptions and police legitimacy

Chapter 11- Institutional Effectiveness, Access to Justice and the Governance of Women Police Stations in West Bengal

Chapter 12- Unfulfilled Potential: Women Police Stations in Pakistan

Chapter 13- Proactive or Predatory: Citizen perceptions of the Zimbabwe state police

Chapter 14- Challenges of Police Prosecution in the Global South: Perspectives of Ghanaian Police Officers

Chapter 15- An Integrative Assessment of Normative Expectations, Treatment Outcome, Procedural Justice, and Public Satisfaction with the Police in the Global South

Part 4 - Organisational reform, crime prevention and community partnerships

Chapter 16- From fear to cooperation: The critical role of community policing in building trust in the postcolonial state of Pakistan

Chapter 17- Feeling black and blue: indigenous police liaison officers in Torres Strait region

Chapter 18- 'Police are the public and the public are the police': Community policing and countering violent extremism (CVE) in Bangladesh

Chapter 19- The Global South and crime prevention through social development: Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago

Chapter 20- The Effectiveness of the British Models of Community Policing in Fiji

Chapter 21- From social promise to social fad: The evolution of community policing on

the Caribbean Island of Dominica

Part 5 - The expanding roles of police organisations

Chapter 22- Policing Human Trafficking and Commercial Sex in Kiribati

Chapter 23- Policing and Technology in the Contemporary Caribbean

Chapter 24- Policing Wildlife Crimes: A historical analysis of the development and impact of wildlife ranger units in Sub-Saharan Africa

Chapter 25- Criminalization of Moral Hazard during Covid-19 Crisis: The study of Thailand under emergency decree 2020-2021

Conclusion

Chapter 26- Continuity and change in policing the Global South