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• Title: It is Not Crime in the Way You See It: Crime Discourses and Outlaw Culture in Yizo Yizo (Critical Essay)
• Author : Innocentia Jabulisile Mhlambi
• Release Date : January 01, 2010
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 89 KB

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A major threat to democracy in post-apartheid South Africa has been the rising tide of crime in the public domain, overriding other socio-historical transformative factors. Anti-crime discourses have begun to build a detailed picture of this phenomenon. Factors such as endemic poverty, accelerated urbanisation, blurred morality, 'arriviste' lifestyles, youth subculture as a counter-culture, (dis)continuities between the politics of the 1980s and 1990s, past animosities between the authorities and youth, and the disquieting relationship between politics and crime in South Africa have become dominant subjects, generating a myopic, though persistently adhered-to, understanding of crime in South Africa. A glance at the literature produced in response to post-1994 crime offers mainly conventional frameworks for the understanding of social deviancy, delinquency, crime, and violence, thereby hobbling intervention strategies in their attempt to keep up with the growth of crime in South Africa. While these theoretical understandings have some value and may even lead to breakthroughs in understanding the causes and nature of crime, there needs to be a paradigm shift in the way in which crime and violence are perceived and investigated. This assertion is supported by the observation that conventional theoretical paradigms generated in privileged environments have in many instances failed to explain social deviancy occurring in less privileged societies. Mainstream paradigms based on conventional modes of understanding will not be of much use in explaining the nature and causes of crime if they slight the specificities of particular, and possibly unfamiliar, contexts.

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