« Discipliner les villes coloniales » : la police et l’ordre urbain au Dahomey pendant l’entre-deux-guerres

This article is aimed to apprehend the transition from a police of conquest to a police of public urban law after 1920 in Dahomey (now Bénin), a French colony from West Africa. From the control of public hygiene to the repression of vagrancy, this article apprehends the context of this mutation, the...

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Main Author: Bénédicte Brunet-La Ruche
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Criminocorpus 2012-01-01
Series:Criminocorpus
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/criminocorpus/1678