Strong NGOs and Weak States

Strong NGOs and Weak States
Author: Milli Lake
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2018-05-31
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108419372

Offers evidence that opportunity structures created by state weakness can allow NGOs to exert unparalleled influence over local human rights law and practice.

Ending Gender-Based Violence

Ending Gender-Based Violence
Author: Hannah E. Britton
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2020-04-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0252051971

South African women's still-increasing presence in local, provincial, and national institutions has inspired sweeping legislation aimed at advancing women's rights and opportunity. Yet the country remains plagued by sexual assault, rape, and intimate partner violence. Hannah E. Britton examines the reasons gendered violence persists in relationship to social inequalities even after women assume political power. Venturing into South African communities, Britton invites service providers, religious and traditional leaders, police officers, and medical professionals to address gender-based violence in their own words. Britton finds the recent turn toward carceral solutions—with a focus on arrests and prosecutions—fails to address the complexities of the problem and looks at how changing specific community dynamics can defuse interpersonal violence. She also examines how place and space affect the implementation of policy and suggests practical ways policymakers can support street level workers. Clear-eyed and revealing, Ending Gender-Based Violence offers needed tools for breaking cycles of brutality and inequality around the world.

Cape Town After Apartheid

Cape Town After Apartheid
Author: Tony Roshan Samara
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2011
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0816670005

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

South African Criminal Law and Procedure: Common-law crimes

South African Criminal Law and Procedure: Common-law crimes
Author: John Milton
Publisher: Juta and Company Ltd
Total Pages: 932
Release: 1996
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780702137730

This edition gives full attention to the new constitutional context in which South African criminal law now operates. It also looks at the emerging culture of human rights and freedoms which has begun to generate a significant shift in perceptions of the boni mores of a new South African society.

White Collar Crime

White Collar Crime
Author: Jerold H. Israel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Offenses against property
ISBN: 9780314283580

Hardbound - New, hardbound print book.

Constitutionalism and Transitional Justice in South Africa

Constitutionalism and Transitional Justice in South Africa
Author: Andrea Lollini
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2011
Genre: History
ISBN: 1845457641

Over the last fifteen years, the South African postapartheid Transitional Amnesty Process – implemented by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) – has been extensively analyzed by scholars and commentators from around the world and from almost every discipline of human sciences. Lawyers, historians, anthropologists and sociologists as well as political scientists have tried to understand, describe and comment on the ‘shocking’ South African political decision to give amnesty to all who fully disclosed their politically motivated crimes committed during the apartheid era. Investigating the postapartheid transition in South Africa from a multidisciplinary perspective involving constitutional law, criminal law, history and political science, this book explores the overlapping of the postapartheid constitution-making process and the Amnesty Process for political violence under apartheid and shows that both processes represent important innovations in terms of constitutional law and transitional justice systems. Both processes contain mechanisms that encourage the constitution of the unity of the political body while ensuring future solidity and stability. From this perspective, the book deals with the importance of several concepts such as truth about the past, publicly shared memory, unity of the political body and public confession.