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Cape Town after apartheid [electronic resource] : crime and governance in the divided city / Tony Roshan Samara.

By: Samara, Tony Roshan.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2011Description: x, 238 p. : ill., map.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 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
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.

Includes 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. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.