‘The State of the Nation, Government Priorities and Women in South Africa’

Government’s priorities affect all South Africans, the majority of whom are women and girls. Particularly black women and girls suffer multiple forms of discrimination and are among the most socioeconomically disadvantaged groups in South Africa. This review gauges how the priorities set for 2012 will affect the social and economic status of women, and measures [...]

You Strike a Gathering, You Strike a Rock: Current debates in the policing of public order in South Africa

Tait, S. and Marks, M. 2011. You Strike a  Gathering, You Strike a Rock: Current debates in the policing of public order in South Africa. South African Crime Quarterly 38. Pp 15-22. This article aims to reopen the debate about public order policing in South Africa. Rising levels of violent localised protest and increased brutality in policing [...]

The Fantastical World of South Africa’s Roadblocks

Marks, M. (2011) ‘The Fantastical World of South Africa’s Roadblocks: Dilemmas of a Ubiquitous Police Strategy’, Policing and Society 21(4): 408-419. Roadblock operations are a very prominent feature of the policing landscape in South Africa. They are increasingly being employed as a tactic for crime reduction and as a mechanism for reassuring the public that [...]

Establishing Police Authority and Civilian Compliance in Post-apartheid Johannesburg

Steinberg, J. (2011) ‘Establishing Police Authority and Civilian Compliance in Post-apartheid Johannesburg: An Argument from the Work of Egon’, Policing and Society Advanced Access. Egon Bittner’s seminal insight is that a precondition of democratic policing is a demand for it among the general population. What happens when that demand is absent? What happens, in other [...]

Towards a Third Phase of Regulation

Berg, J. and J. Nouveau (2011) ‘Towards a Third Phase of Regulation: Re-Imagining Private Security in South Africa’, SA Crime Quarterly, 38:23-32. With the legislative review of police oversight currently taking place in South Africa, now is a good time to reflect on the regulation of the private security industry. This article does so by [...]

Crime Prevention Goes Abroad

Steinberg, J. (2011) Crime Prevention Goes Abroad: Policy Transfer and Policing in Post-apartheid South Africa. Theoretical Criminology, 15(4): 349-364. Loader and Walker have warned that ideas about order ‘always travel with culturally specific baggage’, ‘never adapt easily to [their] new environment’ and thus ‘always risk hubristic failure’. My aim is to offer an exemplar of [...]

Prefigurative Political Ecology and Socio-Environmental Injustice in Central Durban

Bond, P. and Desai, A. (2011) Prefigurative Political Ecology and Socio-Environmental Injustice in Central Durban. Capitalism Nature Socialism, 22(4): 18-42. What of socio-political resistance? Even if there is no disruptive blockade, the moment is ripe for comparison to the powerful joining of radical activists, labor, social movements, and environmentalists, who showed that the obscure World [...]

Punishment and the Body in the ‘Old’ and ‘New’ South Africa

Super, G. (2011) Punishment and the Body in the ‘Old’ and ‘New’ South Africa: A Story of Punitivist Humanism. Theoretical Criminology, 15(4): 427–443. This paper analyses official discourse about punishment in South Africa, from 1976 to 2004. It frames punishment as a form of governance which is both connected to, and separate from, the Anglo/American/European [...]

Trafficking?

Gould, C. (2011) Trafficking? Exploring the Relevance of the notion of Human Trafficking to Describe the Lived Experience of Sex Workers in Cape Town, South Africa. Crime, Law and Social Change, Advanced Access. This article reports on the findings of a study of the sex work industry in Cape Town that was undertaken by the [...]

‘I had a Hard Life’

Mathews, S., Jewkes, R., and Abrahams, N. (2011) ‘I had a Hard Life’: Exploring Childhood Adversity in the Shaping of Masculinities among Men Who Killed an Intimate Partner in South Africa. British Journal of Criminology, 51(6): 960-977. South Africa has a female homicide rate six times the global average, with half of murdered women killed [...]