TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith, Nicholas Rush
PY  - 2019
DA  - 2019//
TI  - Contradictions of democracy: vigilantism and rights in post-apartheid South Africa
T3  - Oxford scholarship online Political Science
PB  - Oxford University Press
CY  - New York
KW  - Vigilantes
KW  - South Africa
KW  - Crime
KW  - Government policy
KW  - Demokratisierung
KW  - Innere Sicherheit
KW  - Kriminalität
KW  - Gewalttätigkeit
KW  - Zivilbevölkerung
KW  - Bekämpfung
KW  - Miliz
KW  - Selbstjustiz
KW  - Gegenmaßnahme
KW  - Vigilantes ; South Africa
KW  - Crime ; Government policy ; South Africa
KW  - South Africa ; Social conditions ; 21st century
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Südafrika
AB  - Despite being one of the world's most vibrant democracies, vigilantism is regularly practiced in South Africa. In any given year, police estimate between 5 and 10 percent of the country's murders result from vigilante violence. Vigilantism is also frequent in other democracies across Latin America, Asia, and Africa. High rates of vigilantism are particularly puzzling in South Africa, though, given that it underwent a celebrated transition to democracy, has a lauded constitution, and enacted massive reforms of the state's legal institutions following democratization. 'Contradictions of Democracy' asks why vigilantism is prevalent in South Africa, asks what South Africa reveals about vigilantism in other emerging democracies, and uses vigilantism to explore contradictions of democratic state formation generally.
SN  - 9780190847227
UR  - https://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780190847180.pdf
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190847180.001.0001
DO  - 10.1093/oso/9780190847180.001.0001
LA  - English
N1  - Nicholas Rush Smith
ID  - 1655353012
ER  -