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

• Pubblicazione: Cape Town, : UCT Press; Cullompton, : Willan, 2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (304 p.)
• Disciplina: 364.968
• Soggetto topico: Crime - South Africa; Crime prevention - South Africa; Criminology - South Africa
• Soggetto geografico: South Africa Social conditions 1994-
• Altri autori: DixonBill Van der SpuyElrena
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Justice gained
• ISBN: 1-919895-63-9; 1-920499-33-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910790508303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II