01826 a2200349 4500 1317125509 20250317111613.0 250312042016GB eng 9781317125501 Taylor & Francis GBP 51.99 BB 01 eng LNF thema LNT thema JKV thema LAZ thema LNSH thema LNF bic LNT bic JKV bic LAZ bic LNSH bic LAW026000 bisac LAW000000 bisac 364.968 bisac Gail Super Governing through Crime in South Africa The Politics of Race and Class in Neoliberalizing Regimes 1 Oxford Routledge 20160422 192 p This book deals with the historic transition to democracy in South Africa and its impact upon crime and punishment. It examines how the problem of crime has emerged as a major issue to be governed in post-apartheid South Africa. Having undergone a dramatic transition from authoritarianism to democracy, from a white minority to black majority government, South Africa provides rich material on the role that political authority, and challenges to it, play in the construction of crime and criminality. As such, the study is about the socio-cultural and political significance of crime and punishment in the context of a change of regime. The work uses the South African case study to examine a question of wider interest, namely the politics of punishment and race in neoliberalizing regimes. It provides interesting and illuminating empirical material to the broader debate on crime control in post-welfare/neoliberalizing/post transition polities. 5057 5057