Policing and Crime Control in Post-apartheid South Africa (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780754644576)

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.

Author: Anne-Marie Singh
ISBN-10: 075464457X
ISBN-13: 9780754644576
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 03/28/2008
Pages: 158
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.89lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.44d