dc.contributor.author | van der Spuy, Elrena | |
dc.contributor.author | Shearing, Cliford | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-10-26T01:31:22Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-10-26T01:31:22Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0002-7162 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1177/0002716213513540 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/113513 | |
dc.description.abstract | South Africa is often held up as an enviable example of a country that avoided a full-blown civil war. Twenty years into the new constitutional democracy, however, the continuation of social conflict and criminal violence begs the question as to whether South Africa deserves to be described as “postconflict.” In this article, we take stock of contemporary conversations about crime. First, key dimensions of South Africa’s crime problem are described, drawing on a composite report on violent crime published in 2009 by the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (Johannesburg). We then focus on three recent episodes to illustrate some of the dimensions of violence in South Africa’s multifaceted society. Finally, we take stock of some select approaches to dealing with violent criminality and review ideas for containing crime and making South Africa safer. | |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Yes | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Sage | |
dc.publisher.place | United States | |
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom | 186 | |
dc.relation.ispartofpageto | 205 | |
dc.relation.ispartofissue | 1 | |
dc.relation.ispartofjournal | The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science | |
dc.relation.ispartofvolume | 652 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Criminology not elsewhere classified | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 440299 | |
dc.title | Curbing the Killing Fields: Making South Africa Safer | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
dc.type.description | C1 - Articles | |
dc.type.code | C - Journal Articles | |
dc.description.version | Accepted Manuscript (AM) | |
gro.rights.copyright | © 2014 American Academy of Political and Social Science. This is the author-manuscript version of the paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version. | |
gro.hasfulltext | Full Text | |
gro.griffith.author | Shearing, Clifford D. | |