Police Violence and Corruption in the Philippines: Violent Exchange and the War on Drugs
Steffen Bo Jensen
Aalborg UniversityDignity-Danish Institute against Torture
Denmark
Steffen Bo Jensen is a professor at the Department of Culture and Global Studies, Aalborg University, Denmark, and a project senior researcher at DIGNITY, the Danish Institute Against Torture. He has a degree in International Development Studies, specialised in the interdisciplinary study of rural and urban development issues. Steffen has published extensively on violent male networks, policing, human rights, sovereignty, and development, working especially with concepts of generation, race, and gender, and has carried out fieldwork in rural and urban South Africa as well as in Manila in the Philippines.
Karl Hapal
University of the Philippines
Philippines
Karl Hapal is an assistant professor at the College of Social Work and Community Development, University of the Philippines, Diliman. Prior to teaching, he worked as a researcher for a human rights organisation in the Philippines. His areas of research include community development, political alternatives, policing, and violence.