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The Truth About Crime
Many African postcolonies are haunted by the spectre of: the waning efficacy of law enforcement, the ambiguity of authority, and the apparent abandonment of subjects by the state.
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A Socio-Historical Perspective on Organized Crime
The project investigated organized crime around the Atlantic seaboard from an unusual perspective – by tracing the migration of RussoPolish criminals to North and South America and to South Africa between 1881 (after the assassination of Tsar Alexander II) and 1914.
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Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing
Chambers, Brooke B. and Joachim J. Savelsberg. 2020. Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Crimi...
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Panic City: Crime and the Fear Industries in Johannesburg
Murray, Martin J. 2020. Panic City: Crime and the Fear Industries in Johannesburg. Stanford University Press. https://www.sup.org/books/titl...
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Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing
Chambers, Brooke B and Joachim J. Savelsberg. 2020. Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Crimin...
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Human Rights and Penal Policy
Savelsberg, Joachim J. and Suzy McElrath. 2018. Human Rights and Penal Policy. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal J...
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Punitive turn and justice cascade: Mutual inspiration from Punishment and Society and human rights literatures
Savelsberg, Joachim J. 2018. Punitive turn and justice cascade: Mutual inspiration from Punishment and Society and human rights literatures....
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Human Rights and Social Control
Savelsberg, Joachim J. and Brooke B Chambers. 2019. Human Rights and Social Control. In The Handbook of Social Control (pp. 442–455). Chiche...
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Sovereign Force and Crime-focused Law at the Cape Colony
George Pavlich. 2013. Sovereign Force and Crime-focused Law at the Cape Colony. Journal of Historical Sociology, 26 (3), 318–338
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Security Governance, Policing and Local Capacity
Jan Froestad and Clifford Shearing. 2013. Security Governance, Policing and Local Capacity. Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 233 + xxi pp. ISB...
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Unlocking Social Puzzles: Colony, Crime and Chronicle: An Interview with Charles van Onselen
Vale, Peter. 2016. Unlocking Social Puzzles: Colony, Crime and Chronicle: An Interview with Charles van Onselen. Thesis Eleven 136(1):35–48....
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Social organising and criminal cooperation
This research draws upon a general theoretical interest in organisation outside of organisations paired with an ambition to better understand the formation of criminal organising or cooperation.
