'Pale face'/ 'pointy face': SA criminology in denial
| dc.contributor.author | Henkeman, Sarah | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 15/05/2016 20:54 | |
| dc.date.available | 15/05/2016 20:54 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper responds to key aspects of Bill Dixon's article, Understanding 'Pointy Face': What is criminology for? It suggests that criminology should unambiguously be 'for' social justice in South Africa's transhistorically unequal context. South African prison statistics are used as a conceptual shortcut to briefly highlight racialised constructions of crime, the criminal and the criminologist. A trans-disciplinary conceptual approach, as a more socially just way to understand violent crime in South Africa, is proposed. A methodological framework, which draws on the notion of cultural-structural-direct violence and intersectional theory, is presented. These extend Bill Dixon's call for criminology to include history, structure, human psyche and biography5 and resonates with Biko Agozino's call for a 'counter-colonial' criminology. The paper ends by returning the Eurocentric gaze of most South African criminologists, calling them out on their denial about trans-historical violence that implicates 'Pale Face' in the violence of 'Pointy Face'. | en_US |
| dc.description.accreditation | DHET | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Henkeman, S. (2013). 'Pale face'/ 'pointy face': SA criminology in denial. South African Crime Quarterly, 45: 5 - 11 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2413-3108 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10566/2196 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.privacy.showsubmitter | FALSE | |
| dc.publisher | Institute for Security Studies (ISS) | en_US |
| dc.rights | This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. | |
| dc.source.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2413-3108/2013/v0i45a812 | |
| dc.status.ispeerreviewed | TRUE | |
| dc.subject | Criminology | en_US |
| dc.subject | South Africa | en_US |
| dc.subject | Violent crime | en_US |
| dc.title | 'Pale face'/ 'pointy face': SA criminology in denial | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |
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