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Cape Town Gangs: The Other Side of Paradise

Cape Town Gangs: The Other Side of Paradise

Don Pinnock
Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 32
ISBN13: 9781522509882|ISBN10: 1522509887|EISBN13: 9781522509899
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0988-2.ch049
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Pinnock, Don. "Cape Town Gangs: The Other Side of Paradise." Violence and Society: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice, edited by Information Resources Management Association, IGI Global, 2017, pp. 923-954. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0988-2.ch049

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Pinnock, D. (2017). Cape Town Gangs: The Other Side of Paradise. In I. Management Association (Ed.), Violence and Society: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice (pp. 923-954). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0988-2.ch049

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Pinnock, Don. "Cape Town Gangs: The Other Side of Paradise." In Violence and Society: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice, edited by Information Resources Management Association, 923-954. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0988-2.ch049

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Abstract

Almost all gang studies throughout the 20th century and most in the 21st locate the reasons for both gang membership and a tendency to violence in the environments within which young people are raised: family, neighbourhood, school, poverty, access to drugs and general deprivation. In Cape Town all these were present under apartheid and still persist 20 years after the country became a democracy. The reasons for this persistence have to do with global and local economics, skills shortages, corruption, political mismanagement and neglect of certain neighbourhoods and are beyond the scope of this chapter. Rather, acknowledging these influences, this study looks at how gangs are defined and examines them from a more finely grained perspective.

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