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dc.contributor.authorvan der Spuy, Elrena
dc.contributor.authorShearing, Cliford
dc.date.accessioned2017-10-26T01:31:22Z
dc.date.available2017-10-26T01:31:22Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.issn0002-7162
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0002716213513540
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/113513
dc.description.abstractSouth 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.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSage
dc.publisher.placeUnited States
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom186
dc.relation.ispartofpageto205
dc.relation.ispartofissue1
dc.relation.ispartofjournalThe ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
dc.relation.ispartofvolume652
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCriminology not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode440299
dc.titleCurbing the Killing Fields: Making South Africa Safer
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
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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.
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