Transformation & trouble crime, justice, and participation in democratic South Africa /

Gordon, Diana R.

Transformation & trouble crime, justice, and participation in democratic South Africa / [electronic resource] : Transformation and trouble Diana R. Gordon. - Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2006. - xiii, 382 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-350) and index.

Introduction : two paradigms and a program -- Pre-apartheid justice : versatile instrument of repression -- Apartheid justice : a contradiction in terms -- Bitter fruit from poison seeds -- Elements of liberal justice in a new democracy -- Protection, integrity, and rights : South Africa's achievements -- Public-empowering justice : resource for a new democracy -- Participation thwarted : South African failures -- Wielding the big stick -- Democratic justice and the competent citizen.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Criminal justice, Administration of--South Africa.
Democracy--South Africa.


South Africa--Ethnic relations.


Electronic books.

HV9960.S6 / G67 2006

364.968