Justice gained? : crime and crime control in South Africa's transition / edited by Bill Dixon and Elrena van der Spuy.
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 cha...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cape Town : Cullompton :
UCT Press ; Willan,
2004.
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxxvii, 266 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781920499334 1920499334 9781919895642 1919895647 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |