Contradictions to democracy : vigilantism and rights in post-apartheid South Africa /
Smith, Nicholas Rush,author.
Includes bibliography (pages 219-238) and index.
Vigilantism and the contradictions of democratic state formation -- The people's justice: historical antecedents of contemporary vigilantism -- Spectacles of state craft: the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and post-apartheid law making -- Rights in translation: vigilantism and the meanings of institutional effectiveness and failure -- Taking charge: the contradictory pleasures of citizen crime fighting -- The risks and rewards of vigilantism -- The racial geographies of criminal panic: protesting crime in the suburbs -- Against vigilantism: citizen and state action to combat vigilantism -- Law-making and state-making as vigilantism.
Vigilantes
Crime
Crime
Social conditions.
Vigilantes.
Resisting rights.