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Book Review: Crimes of Violence in Black Townships

Book Review: Crimes of Violence in Black Townships AUST & NZ JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY (December 1988) 21 (269-285) 269 BOOK REVIEWS Crimes of Violence in Black Townships, G L Ndabandaba, Butterworths (1987) 130 pp, $15. Literature dealing with various aspects of South African society tends to arouse interest because of the oppressive and distorted nature of that society, and because information is often difficult to obtain and strictly circumscribed. Crimes a/Violence in Black Townships is of particular interest because it attempts to explain a disturbing and growing phenomenon, viz the incidence of violence in South Africa's Black townships. The author notes the dearth of research on the topic of Black crime and the added problem that the research thus far conducted has been initiated and carried out by White researchers. Obviously in a racially polarised South Africa, and because of the vastly different cultural traditions of the Black and White communities, the question of who interprets the phenomenon of Black crime is of particular significance. This is so because of the different standards that Black and White researchers would be inclined to apply to the issue. The author states in his preface that, ... the book, in the process of analysing criminal violence in a Black township http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology SAGE

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SAGE
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© The Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology and Authors, 1988
ISSN
0004-8658
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1837-9273
DOI
10.1177/000486588802100408
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AUST & NZ JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY (December 1988) 21 (269-285) 269 BOOK REVIEWS Crimes of Violence in Black Townships, G L Ndabandaba, Butterworths (1987) 130 pp, $15. Literature dealing with various aspects of South African society tends to arouse interest because of the oppressive and distorted nature of that society, and because information is often difficult to obtain and strictly circumscribed. Crimes a/Violence in Black Townships is of particular interest because it attempts to explain a disturbing and growing phenomenon, viz the incidence of violence in South Africa's Black townships. The author notes the dearth of research on the topic of Black crime and the added problem that the research thus far conducted has been initiated and carried out by White researchers. Obviously in a racially polarised South Africa, and because of the vastly different cultural traditions of the Black and White communities, the question of who interprets the phenomenon of Black crime is of particular significance. This is so because of the different standards that Black and White researchers would be inclined to apply to the issue. The author states in his preface that, ... the book, in the process of analysing criminal violence in a Black township

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Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology – SAGE

Published: Dec 1, 1988

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