02810nam 2200637Ia 450 991080883550332120240410163545.01-919895-63-91-920499-33-4(CKB)2550000001133058(EBL)1052171(OCoLC)818869390(SSID)ssj0000758147(PQKBManifestationID)11966267(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000758147(PQKBWorkID)10772516(PQKB)10130692(MiAaPQ)EBC3015236(Au-PeEL)EBL3015236(CaPaEBR)ebr10635828(CaONFJC)MIL532767(OCoLC)923644370(EXLCZ)99255000000113305820040908d2004 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrJustice gained?[electronic resource] crime and crime control in South Africa's transition /edited by Bill Dixon and Elrena van der Spuy1st ed.Cape Town UCT Press ;Cullompton Willan20041 online resource (304 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-919713-71-9 1-306-01516-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; INDEXKey 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.CrimeSouth AfricaCrime preventionSouth AfricaCriminologySouth AfricaSouth AfricaSocial conditions1994-CrimeCrime preventionCriminology364.968Dixon Bill1681774Van der Spuy Elrena1681775MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910808835503321Justice gained4051410UNINA