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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790508303321

Titolo

Justice gained? [[electronic resource] ] : crime and crime control in South Africa's transition / / edited by Bill Dixon and Elrena van der Spuy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cape Town, : UCT Press

Cullompton, : Willan, 2004

ISBN

1-919895-63-9

1-920499-33-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DixonBill

Van der SpuyElrena

Disciplina

364.968

Soggetti

Crime - South Africa

Crime prevention - South Africa

Criminology - South Africa

South Africa Social conditions 1994-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copyright; Content; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; Introduction: Justice Gained?; 1 'A SNAKE GIVES BIRTH TO A SNAKE'; 2 OUT OF THE MAINSTREAM; 3 GUNS AND PUBLIC POLICY IN SOUTH AFRlCA; 4 MURDER AND CAPITAL PUNISHMENT AFTER APARTHEID; 5 CHILD JUSTICE AND DIVERSION; 6 ACTING AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; 7 COSMETIC CRIME PREVENTION; 8 SOUTH AFRICAN POLICING STUDIES IN THE MAKING; 9 SWIMMING AGAINST THE TIDE; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Key questions in contemporary South African criminology are examined in these essays, including Why is crime such a persistent problem? and How have crime control practices altered in response to the challenges of the post-apartheid era?. Teachers, researchers, policy advisors, and practitioners challenge some of the received wisdom re-emerging in a discipline in danger of both forgetting its own history, and of misunderstanding the role of critical social science in a democratic South Africa.