jt340@cam.ac.uk
Faculty Contact Details
Tel: 01223 767366
Associate Professor of Criminology
B.A. (Ghana), MPhil (Cantab), PhD (Cantab)
Interests
Policing
Corruption
Legitimacy
Procedural Justice
Criminal Justice and Democratisation in Transitional Societies
Sociology of Law
Violence
Crime
Ghana
CV / Biography
Dr Tankebe is University Affiliated Lecturer and Fellow of Fitzwilliam College. He is also British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow. He read Sociology as an undergraduate student at the University of Ghana (Legon), before joining Cambridge University in 2004 for his MPhil and doctoral degrees in Criminology at St. Edmund's College. He took his PhD in 2008.
Publications
Articles
"Explaining Police Support for Use of Force and Vigilante Violence in Ghana" [2011] Policing & Society 21(2): 129-149
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[2011] Policing & Society 21(2): 129-149
Published: Jun 2011
"Self-Help, Policing and Procedural Justice: Vigilantism and the Rule of Law in Ghana" [2009] Law and Society Review 43: 245 – 269
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[2009] Law and Society Review 43: 245 – 269
Published: Dec 2010
"Identifying the Correlates of Police Organisational Commitment in Ghana" [2010] Police Quarterly 13: 73 - 91
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[2010] Police Quarterly 13: 73 - 91
Published: Dec 2010
"Public Confidence in the Police: Testing the Effects of Experience of Police Corruption in Ghana" [2010] British Journal of Criminology 50: 296 – 319
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[2010] British Journal of Criminology 50: 296 – 319
Published: Dec 2010
"Public Cooperation with the Police in Ghana: Does Procedural Fairness Matter?" [2009] Criminology 47: 1265 – 1293
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[2009] Criminology 47: 1265 – 1293
Published: Dec 2010
Book Chapters
"Legitimation and Resistance: Police Reform in the (un)making" (with L. K. Cheliotis), Roots, Rites and Sites of Resistance: The Banality of Good (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)
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Published Dec 2010
"Legitimacy" (with R. Canton and D. Hancock), Dictionary of Probation and Offender Management (Willan Publishing, 2010)
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Published Dec 2010
Book Reviews
Tackling Prison Overcrowding. Edited by M. Hough, R. Allen & E. Solomon [2010] Howard Journal of Criminal Justice 49(5): 552-553
Published Jun 2010
Policing Public Disorder: Theory and Practice by D. Waddington [2009] Theoretical Criminology 13(4): 516–518
Published Jun 2009
Democratic Policing in Transitional and Developing Countries. Edited by N. Pino and M. D. Wiatrowski [2008] Howard Journal of Criminal Justice 47(2): 217–218
Published Jun 2008
Theorising Surveillance. Edited by D. Lyon [2008] Punishment and Society 10(1): 91–92
Published Jun 2008
Inventing Fear of Crime by M. Lee [2008] Howard Journal of Criminal Justice 47(5): 564–565
Published Jun 2008
Global Surveillance and Policing. Edited by E. Zureik and M. B. Salter [2007] British Journal of Criminology 47(4): 696–698
Published Jun 2007
Conference Papers
"Police Self-Legitimacy: Theory and Evidence" (Annual meetings of the American Society of Criminology. San Francisco – U.S.A)
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Annual meetings of the American Society of Criminology. San Francisco – U.S.A
Published: Nov 2010
"Sociological Theory and Police Research" (Annual meetings of the American Society of Criminology. San Francisco – U.S.A)
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Annual meetings of the American Society of Criminology. San Francisco – U.S.A
Published: Nov 2010
"Understanding Legitimacy: A Dialogic Relationship within Institutional Normative Order" (Invited talk at Institute of Criminology Public Seminar Series. University of Cambridge, Cambridge – U. K.)
Conference:
Invited talk at Institute of Criminology Public Seminar Series. University of Cambridge, Cambridge – U. K.
Published: Oct 2010
"Whose Legitimacy? Why Legitimacy?" (Anual meetings of theEuropean Society, Liège –Belgium)
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Anual meetings of theEuropean Society, Liège –Belgium
Published: Sep 2010
"Consent and Legitimacy in Policing" (Annual meetings of the American Society of Criminology, Philadelphia)
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Annual meetings of the American Society of Criminology, Philadelphia
Published: Nov 2009
"Police Legitimacy and the Problem of Multiculturalism" (Annual meetings of the European Society, Ljubljana, Slovenia)
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Annual meetings of the European Society, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Published: Sep 2009
"On the Cross-Cultural Validity of a Legitimacy Scale: A Study in Ghana. Paper Presented at the" (Annual meetings of the American Society of Criminology, St Louis – Missouri, U.S.A)
Conference:
Annual meetings of the American Society of Criminology, St Louis – Missouri, U.S.A
Published: Nov 2008
"Corruption Reforms, Resistance and Legitimation in Policing" (Annual meetings of the European Society, Edinburgh, U.K.)
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Annual meetings of the European Society, Edinburgh, U.K.
Published: Sep 2008
"(In)visibility, Power and Legitimation" (Annual meetings of the European Society, Edinburgh, U.K)
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Annual meetings of the European Society, Edinburgh, U.K
Published: Sep 2008
"Public Cooperation with the Police in Ghana: Lessons for Policing Multicultural Societies" (Annual Stockholm Criminology Symposium, Stockholm, Sweden)
Conference:
Annual Stockholm Criminology Symposium, Stockholm, Sweden
Published: Aug 2008
"Legitimation, Internal Conversations and Commitment to Police Work" (annual meetings of the British Society of Criminology, Huddersfield, U.K)
Conference:
annual meetings of the British Society of Criminology, Huddersfield, U.K
Published: Jul 2008
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