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Interviews | Beatrice Jauregui, criminology and sociolegal studies scholar, interviewed by Seema Chishti (TheWire.in)
Beatrice Jauregui, criminology and sociolegal studies scholar, interviewed by Seema Chishti (TheWire.in)

Beatrice Jauregui, criminology and sociolegal studies scholar, interviewed by Seema Chishti (TheWire.in)

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published Published on Aug 10, 2020   modified Modified on Aug 11, 2020

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Journalist Seema Chishti interviews the criminology and sociolegal studies scholar about Vikas Dubey's links with the UP police, the Delhi police's investigation of the riots and the custodial death of a father-son duo in Tamil Nadu.

Beatrice Jauregui is associate professor at the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada. She is most recently the author of Provisional Authority – Police. Order and Security in India. The book is based on an intimate and intense study of Indian police practices, most strikingly in Uttar Pradesh, and also on how the police’s actions reflect India’s politics and social faultiness and also enhances them.

The recent custodial murder of local criminal Vikas Dubey and talk of his close links with members of Uttar Pradesh’s police force, the role of the Delhi police in investigating the violence in Delhi in February that claimed 53 lives, and then the brutal murder of a father-son duo in Tamil Nadu in police custody for an alleged violation of a coronavirus-induced curfew has further drawn attention to the role of the police in India today.

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* In the way that India and other countries at the time, inherited the colonial police force, could it ever have been fair, robust and compatible with ideas in our constitution? Or did you get a sense that things have deteriorated in the past few decades?

Policing as a global form developed as part and parcel of colonial capitalist governance. Therefore, regardless of a country’s particular history of colonial encounters, its police institutions have baked into them various forms of social inequality and conflict. Perennial problems like poverty, homelessness, migration, racism, sexism and other bases of discrimination against marginalised peoples do not originate with the police; but everyday police practices do reflect and reinscribe these and other problems.

This reflection and reinscription may look different depending on context, even within different parts of India, with its extraordinary cultural and political diversity. Policing in Uttar Pradesh, where I’ve been conducting field research for two decades, looks different in many ways from policing in Kerala or even policing in major metropolis like Mumbai or Kolkata. Of course, there are many similarities, too. In sum, I don’t think policing anywhere has ever been completely “fair” or in line with democratic ideals of equality and liberty, since it is always already imbricated with politics.

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TheWire.in, 10 August, 2020, https://m.thewire.in/article/government/beatrice-jauregui-interview-police-india/amp?__twitter_impression=true&fbclid=IwAR00RZzxggvnfDUD9DioCewWYRVk1Y-DS-PlCYFoWIUuVflvdvvZR0EfxkY


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