One Nation, Under Siege. Sasha Abramsky.
by Abramsky, Sasha; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 71Global Issues. Publisher: American Prospect, 2005ISSN: 1522-3221;.Subject(s): Apartheid | Crime -- South Africa | Criminal statistics | Prisoners -- Statistics | South Africa -- Social conditions | Vigilantes | Zero toleranceDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Apartheid is becoming a distant memory in South Africa. But is a country this consumed by crime really free?" (AMERICAN PROSPECT) This article examines crime rates in post-apartheid South Africa and notes that "like America in the late '80s and early '90s, South Africa is a society preoccupied by crime, its media addicted to covering every bloody act in gory detail, its middle classes transfixed by the omnipresent siege mentality. In this atmosphere, myth and reality blend, creating a potent cocktail of fear, anger, rage and demands for action, any action, to regain control of the streets."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: One Nation, Under Siege, April 2005; pp. 48-52.
"Apartheid is becoming a distant memory in South Africa. But is a country this consumed by crime really free?" (AMERICAN PROSPECT) This article examines crime rates in post-apartheid South Africa and notes that "like America in the late '80s and early '90s, South Africa is a society preoccupied by crime, its media addicted to covering every bloody act in gory detail, its middle classes transfixed by the omnipresent siege mentality. In this atmosphere, myth and reality blend, creating a potent cocktail of fear, anger, rage and demands for action, any action, to regain control of the streets."
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