South Africa's Apartheid regime focused the energies of its police force on countering its political opponents rather than tackling conventional crime. This, to

Once a marginal political issue, crime control now occupies a central place on the social, political and economic agenda of contemporary liberal democracies. No

Reveals how liberal democracy and free-market economics reproduce the inequalities of apartheid in Cape Town, South Africa.

Once a marginal political issue, crime control now occupies a central place on the social, political and economic agenda of contemporary liberal democracies. No

A country is policed only to the extent that it consents to be. When that consent is withheld, cops either negotiate or withdraw. Once they do this, however, th