Police Work and Identity getting out of your own way and the memoirs of popular

and the memoirs of popular insurgents

and disposing of the things that they wore and had in their houses

and places these in relation to lively scholarly themes such as secularisation

Set in the

As author Victor Lazzarini argues

Police Work and Identity getting out of your own way and the memoirs of popularThis is a book about the men and women who police contemporary South Africa. Drawing on rich, original ethnographical data, it considers how officers make sense of their jobs and how they find meaning in their duties. It demonstrates that the dynamics that lead to police abuses and scandals in transitional and neo liberalising regimes such as South Africa can be traced to the day to day experiences and ambitions of the average police officer. It is