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Policing and crime control in post-apartheid South Africa, Anne-Marie Singh

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [127]-142) and index

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Policing and crime control in post-apartheid South Africa

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Anne-Marie Singh

Interdisciplinary research series in ethnic, gender, and class relations

Anne-Marie Singh highlights the persistent struggles over the exercise and regulation of crime control authority in South Africa. The debates and disputes over the distribution of crime control does not only occur in legal and policy circles. Individual citizens, communities, NGOs and businesses also participate in such discussions., 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