In 2013 stories emerged of gangs stealing plasma TV screens to use to make street drugs. It’s a myth, but it tells us something about South Africa’s social anxieties.
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Her celebration of black life, black beauty and black humanity through her films and music was subversive.
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Using the military continuously in internal roles for which it is not structured, funded or trained simply speeds up its decline.
Given the framework within which removals under the Group Areas Act took place in Cape Town, a social disaster was inevitable.
Youngsters who grow up in a culture of anger and violence may be drawn to gangs, and schools then become fertile grounds for criminal behaviour.
People have always loved a bit of old-fashioned villainy.
The folklore of the Krays is recast in order to shine light on current attitudes toward crime deviance and in particular, violence.
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Senior Lecturer, Criminology, University of York
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Professor of Criminology, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Head of Research, faculty of Education, Cape Peninsula University of Technology
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Associate professor, University of the Witwatersrand
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Vice-Dean Research, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Stellenbosch University
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Research fellow, criminologist, University of Cape Town
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Professor in Film Studies, Trinity College Dublin
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Artist in Residency, University of Pretoria
