Governing through Crime in South Africa

The Politics of Race and Class in Neoliberalizing Regimes

Gail Super (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-26696-4 (ISBN)

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This book deals with the historic transition to democracy in South Africa and its impact upon crime and punishment. It examines how the problem of crime has emerged as a major issue to be governed in post-apartheid South Africa. Having undergone a dramatic transition from authoritarianism to democracy, from a white minority to black majority government, South Africa provides rich material on the role that political authority, and challenges to it, play in the construction of crime and criminality. As such, the study is about the socio-cultural and political significance of crime and punishment in the context of a change of regime. The work uses the South African case study to examine a question of wider interest, namely the politics of punishment and race in neoliberalizing regimes. It provides interesting and illuminating empirical material to the broader debate on crime control in post-welfare/neoliberalizing/post transition polities.

Gail Super is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Criminology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa. She has a PhD in Law and Society from New York University, where she worked with David Garland, an MSc in Criminology from the London School of Economics, where she worked with the late Stan Cohen, and a law degree from the University of Cape Town. Before embarking on postgraduate studies Gail practiced as a human rights lawyer at the Legal Assistance Centre in Namibia and as an international human rights consultant, with a focus on children in trouble with the law. It was under her stewardship that the Legal Assistance Centre was awarded the UNICEF Maurice Pate award for innovation in the field of children’s rights. She has had articles published in leading international journals such as the British Journal of Criminology and Theoretical Criminology.

Chapter 1 Starting the Conversation; Chapter 2 ).; Chapter 3 Explanations for Crime; Chapter 4 Constructions of Criminality; Chapter 5 Crime Prevention and the Turn to the Community; Chapter 6 and ) which were published in the British Journal of Criminology and Theoretical Criminology respectively.; epi Epilogue and Concluding Thoughts;

Erscheinungsdatum	07.01.2017
Reihe/Serie	New Advances in Crime and Social Harm
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	272 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Sozialrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Sachenrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-138-26696-5 / 1138266965
ISBN-13	978-1-138-26696-4 / 9781138266964
Zustand	Neuware