Book review: Gail Super,Governing through Crime in South Africa: The Politics of Race and Class in Neoliberalizing Regimes

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(2011) Policing and Human Rights: The Meaning of Violence and Justice in the Everyday Policing of Johannesburg. Abingdon: Routledge.

Steinberg

(2011) Crime prevention goes abroad: Policy transfer and policing in post-apartheid South Africa. Theoretical Criminology 15(4): 349–364.

Super

(2010) The spectacle of crime in the ‘new’ South Africa: A historical perspective (1976–2004). British Journal of Criminology 50(2): 165–184.

Super

(2011a) Like some rough beast slouching towards Bethlehem to be born: A historical perspective on the institution of the prison in South Africa, 1976–2004. British Journal of Criminology 51(1): 201–221.

Super

(2011b) Punishment and the body in the ‘old’ and ‘new’ South Africa: A story of punitivist humanism. Theoretical Criminology 15(4): 427–443.