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Becoming Montenegrin: biopower, police reform and human rights (2019)
Journal Article
Ryan. (2019). Becoming Montenegrin: biopower, police reform and human rights. The International Journal of Human Rights, 23(4), 476-492. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2016.1161211

The paper forms a Foucauldian analysis of police reforms in Montenegro. Drawing on interviews with police officers at all ranks in 2004, undertaken as reform was commencing, and on interviews undertaken in 2010, after Montenegro's independence, the p... Read More about Becoming Montenegrin: biopower, police reform and human rights.

What the police is supposed to do: contrasting expectations of community policing in Serbia (2007)
Journal Article
Ryan, B. (2007). What the police is supposed to do: contrasting expectations of community policing in Serbia. Policing and Society, 17(1), 1 -20. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439460601124106

Concentrating specifically on policing reform in the Republic of Serbia shortly after the fall of Slobodan Miloševic's regime, this article focuses on the process of introducing community policing to a police force equipped and trained to operate in... Read More about What the police is supposed to do: contrasting expectations of community policing in Serbia.

All that’s constant is change: a brief political history of police reforms in Serbia
Journal Article
Ryan. (2008). All that’s constant is change: a brief political history of police reforms in Serbia

Policing in Yugoslavia and in Serbia historically exhibits a greater affinity towards the maintenance of a particular socio-political order than it has the rule of law. This article argues against common held international contentions that the police... Read More about All that’s constant is change: a brief political history of police reforms in Serbia.