Abstract
ABSTRACT This article challenges the developed-developing binary when understanding police reform by comparing two cases – Jamaica and Canada. Grounded in critical development studies and criminology literatures, it demonstrates divergences in police organizational structures/mandates and some convergences in police reform efforts, failures, and resistance to systemic change despite vast context variations. Therefore, it creates room for questioning the challenges of police reform in the development discourse as primarily a feature of a nation’s development, or lack thereof, and instead prompts us to rethink how we conceptualize, understand, and address police institutional structures that affect both developing and developed countries alike.
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