Policing and Crime Control in Post-apartheid South Africa

Once a marginal political issue crime control now occupies a central place on the social political and economic agenda of contemporary liberal democracies. Nowhere more so than in post-apartheid South Africa where the transition from apartheid rule to democratic rule was marked by a shift in concern from political to criminal violence. In this book Anne-Marie Singh offers a comprehensive account of policing transformations in post-apartheid South Africa. Her analysis of crime and mechanisms for its control is linked to an analysis of neo-liberal policies providing the basis for a critique of existing analyses of liberal democratic governance. Themes addressed in the book include the exercise of coercive authority state and non-state expertise in policing the 'rationally-choosing' criminal and the importance of developing an active and responsible citizenship.