Policing and Crime Control in Post-apartheid South Africa (Interdisciplinary Research Series in Ethnic, Gender and Class Relations)

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Название:Policing and Crime Control in Post-apartheid South Africa (Interdisciplinary Research Series in Ethnic, Gender and Class Relations)

Автор: Anne-Marie Singh

Издательство: Ashgate

ISBN: 075464457X

Дата издания:2008-04-22

Страниц: 158

Язык:Английский

Формат:PDF

Размер: 1.06 MB

Once a marginal political issue, crime control now occupies a central place on the social, political and economic agenda of contemporary liberal democracies. Nowhere more so than in post-apartheid South Africa, where the transition from apartheid rule to democratic rule was marked by a shift in concern from political to criminal violence.In this book, Anne-Marie Singh offers a comprehensive account of policing transformations in post-apartheid South Africa. Her analysis of crime and mechanisms for its control is linked to an analysis of neo-liberal policies, providing the basis for a critique of existing analyses of liberal democratic governance. Themes addressed in the book include the exercise of coercive authority, state and non-state expertise in policing, the 'rationally-choosing' criminal, and the importance of developing an active and responsible citizenship.