Download or read book Crime and Punishment in South Africa written by James Midgley and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Governing through Crime in South Africa written by Gail Super and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the historic transition to democracy in South Africa and its impact upon crime and punishment. It examines how the problem of crime has emerged as a major issue to be governed in post-apartheid South Africa. Having undergone a dramatic transition from authoritarianism to democracy, from a white minority to black majority government, South Africa provides rich material on the role that political authority, and challenges to it, play in the construction of crime and criminality. As such, the study is about the socio-cultural and political significance of crime and punishment in the context of a change of regime. The work uses the South African case study to examine a question of wider interest, namely the politics of punishment and race in neoliberalizing regimes. It provides interesting and illuminating empirical material to the broader debate on crime control in post-welfare/neoliberalizing/post transition polities.
Download or read book Death by Decree written by Roelien Theron and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Crime and Punishment with Reference to the Native Population of South Africa written by Harold Jack Simons and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gender of Crime and Punishment in Southern Africa written by Nikki Kalbing and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study draws upon several thousand rape and murder trials from Natal, South Africa and the mandated territory of South West Africa (present-day Namibia) to explore the relationship between criminal law, African gender relations, and state formation under British colonial rule, the apartheid state, and the League of Nations Permanent Mandates Commission. The study builds upon historiography that characterizes the civil law--as embodied in customary law regimes--as a tool of racial segregation and gender inequality in that chiefs and magistrates applied customary law to Africans in a manner that contracted the legal rights of African women, while people of other races were subject to the Roman-Dutch law. This study asks whether criminal law played a similar role in advancing racial segregation. The analysis also explores whether the subordination of African women was as central to the formulation of criminal law as it was to civil law, and whether criminal law protected African women from violence by African men. The study concludes that while civil law advanced segregation, criminal law was a space of legal integration. The devolution of civil jurisdiction to chiefs helped create a segregated legal system and social order. In contrast, violent crime undermined social and state stability. The white-run courts that applied Roman-Dutch law maintained a monopoly on trying capital crimes committed by people of all races in order to maintain state stability--not out of a specific desire to regulate violence between African men and women. Therefore, African gender relations were not directly central to the formulation of criminal law. Nevertheless, trials for violence against women profoundly affected both the application of the law and the lives of African women. Pre-conceived judicial notions about African society and sexuality coalesced with the cultural defenses of African male witnesses to create an overall culture of legal leniency towards violence against women. African women were consequently disadvantaged under both the civil and criminal law.
Download or read book Justice Gained written by Bill Dixon and published by University of Cape Town Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years into South Africa's new democarcy, crime and what should be done about it are the subject of endless debate. Arguments rage about everything from the accuracy of the country's crime statistics to the state of its prison. but why is crime such a persistent problem? How have patterns of offending changed over the course of South Africa's transition to democarcy. This book provides a series of essays examine the issues and provide insight into solutions.
Download or read book Crime and Punishment in South Africa written by Jacobus Johannes Labuschagne and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Citizen s Guide to Crime Trends in South Africa written by Anine Kreigler and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2016-06-05 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Africans care a lot about crime. We think and worry about it, plan and insure against it, develop and share theories about it, read about it, and talk about it... a lot. But how much do we really know? Crime statistics do not belong to the government, academics, specialists, or the press. They are ours: we experience and report crimes and have a right to access and understand their official record. It should not take any particular expertise to get a grasp on what we should make of the figures and graphs that the South African Police Service produces every year. A Citizen's Guide to Crime Trends in South Africa provides a basis on which to understand the statistics in a manner that is accessible to everyone. Each chapter challenges a set of oft-repeated assumptions about how bad crime is, where it occurs, and who its victims are. It also demonstrates how and why crime statistics need to be matched with other forms of research, including criminal justice data, in order to produce a fuller account of what we are faced with.
Download or read book The Criminal Law of South Africa written by P. C. Anders and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Guide to Sentencing in South Africa written by S. S. Terblanche and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 1999 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Criminal Law in South Africa written by Shannon Vaughn Hoctor and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this book provides a practical analysis of criminal law in South Africa. An introduction presents the necessary background information about the framework and sources of the criminal justice system, and then proceeds to a detailed examination of the grounds for criminal liability, the justification of criminal offences, the defences that diminish or excuse criminal liability, the classification of criminal offences, and the sanctions system. Coverage of criminal procedure focuses on the organization of investigations, pre-trial proceedings, trial stage, and legal remedies. A final part describes the execution of sentences and orders, the prison system, and the extinction of custodial sanctions or sentences. Its succinct yet scholarly nature, as well as the practical quality of the information it provides, make this book a valuable resource for criminal lawyers, prosecutors, law enforcement officers, and criminal court judges handling cases connected with South Africa. Academics and researchers, as well as the various international organizations in the field, will welcome this very useful guide, and will appreciate its value in the study of comparative criminal law.
Download or read book Rethinking Crime and Punishment written by Rebecca Gore and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book African Penal Systems written by Alan Milner and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-07-31 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1969, African Penal Systems is the first book to explore the problems of African criminology. Sixteen distinguished contributors- sociologists, lawyers, and psychiatrists- each an authority on some aspect of African penal problems, have collaborated to produce it. Its first part gives a general survey of the penal systems of some fourteen African countries, variously English, French, or Portuguese inclined, or wholly autochthonous. Part two includes six specialist contributions on various detailed problems in the development and operation of the modern African systems. In his introduction Alan Milner, describes the sociological forces responsible for the increase of crime in Africa and examines the possibility of the growth of a peculiarly African approach to the solution of its penal problems. This is a must read for scholars and researchers African Studies, criminology, and African Law.
Download or read book Crime in South Africa written by Edward P. Cain and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Confinement Punishment and Prisons in Africa written by Marie Morelle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-10 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary volume presents a nuanced critique of the prison experience in diverse detention facilities across Africa. The book stresses the contingent, porous nature of African prisons, across both time and space. It draws on original long-term ethnographic research undertaken in both Francophone and Anglophone settings, which are grouped in four parts. The first part examines how the prison has imprinted itself on wider political and social imaginaries and, in turn, how structures of imprisonment carry the imprint of political action of various times. The second part stresses how particular forms of ordering emerge in African prisons. It is held that while these often involve coercion and neglect, they are better understood as the product of on-going negotiations and the search for meaning and value on the part of a multitude of actors. The third part is concerned with how prison life percolates beyond its physical perimeters into its urban and rural surroundings, and vice versa. It deals with the popular and contested nature of what prisons are about and what they do, especially in regard to bringing about moral subjects. The fourth and final part of the book examines how efforts of reforming and resisting the prison take shape at the intersection of globally circulating models of good governance and levels of self-organisation by prisoners. The book will be an essential reference for students, academics and policy-makers in Law, Criminology, Sociology and Politics.
Download or read book Crime as Punishment written by Nicholas Harte Matlin and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book White Collar Crime written by Jerold H. Israel and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hardbound - New, hardbound print book.
