Cape Town after apartheid [electronic resource] : crime and governance in the divided city / Tony Roshan Samara.
Material type: TextPublication details: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2011Description: x, 238 p. : ill., mapISBN: 9780816676842 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Crime -- South Africa -- Cape Town | Crime prevention -- South Africa -- Cape Town | Violence -- South Africa -- Cape Town | Gangs -- South Africa -- Cape Town | Police -- South Africa -- Cape TownGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 364.96873/55 LOC classification: HV7150.5.Z8 | C427 2011Online resources: Click to ViewIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : urban geopolitics, neoliberalism, and the governance of security -- Security and development in post-apartheid South Africa -- Children in the streets : urban governance in Cape Town city center -- Gangsterism and the policing of the Cape Flats -- The weight of policing on the fragile ground of transformation -- The production of criminality on the urban periphery -- Conclusion : apartheid, democracy and the urban future.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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