State control and street gangs in Cape Town : towards an understanding of social and spatial development
| dc.contributor.author | Pinnock, Don | en_ZA |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-05-09T08:58:23Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-05-09T08:58:23Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1982 | en_ZA |
| dc.description.abstract | One of the more speculative tasks of this book is to assess what impact those gangs are likely to have on the changes urban South Africa will undergo in the last two decades of the 20th Century, be it peaceful, reactionary or revolutionary. A rather more immediate task, and a necessary precursor, is to explore the functions of these gangs and the causes of their existence. But this immediately leads us into wider and deeper areas, to poverty, social dislocation and strategies of class defence. And within and beyond these conditions can be found an ongoing struggle for survival, a class struggle, and the outline of the state itself. (It is here that one encounters a strange paradox: a system which upholds law and order while at the same time creating the preconditions for its breakdown.) But we must start with the street gangs. A count in 30 areas on the Cape Flats during 1982 found in daily existence 280 groups who identified themselves as gangs. Nearly 80 per cent of the gang members interviewed for this study said their group was more than 100 strong, 54 per cent put the figure at 200 and several as high as 2000. An extremely rough estimate gives a figure of 50,000 youths who would define themselves as gang members, or about five per cent of the city's total population. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Pinnock, D. (1982). <i>State control and street gangs in Cape Town : towards an understanding of social and spatial development</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Sociology. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19514 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Pinnock, Don. <i>"State control and street gangs in Cape Town : towards an understanding of social and spatial development."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Sociology, 1982. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19514 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Pinnock, D. 1982. State control and street gangs in Cape Town : towards an understanding of social and spatial development. University of Cape Town. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Pinnock, Don AB - One of the more speculative tasks of this book is to assess what impact those gangs are likely to have on the changes urban South Africa will undergo in the last two decades of the 20th Century, be it peaceful, reactionary or revolutionary. A rather more immediate task, and a necessary precursor, is to explore the functions of these gangs and the causes of their existence. But this immediately leads us into wider and deeper areas, to poverty, social dislocation and strategies of class defence. And within and beyond these conditions can be found an ongoing struggle for survival, a class struggle, and the outline of the state itself. (It is here that one encounters a strange paradox: a system which upholds law and order while at the same time creating the preconditions for its breakdown.) But we must start with the street gangs. A count in 30 areas on the Cape Flats during 1982 found in daily existence 280 groups who identified themselves as gangs. Nearly 80 per cent of the gang members interviewed for this study said their group was more than 100 strong, 54 per cent put the figure at 200 and several as high as 2000. An extremely rough estimate gives a figure of 50,000 youths who would define themselves as gang members, or about five per cent of the city's total population. DA - 1982 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 1982 T1 - State control and street gangs in Cape Town : towards an understanding of social and spatial development TI - State control and street gangs in Cape Town : towards an understanding of social and spatial development UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19514 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19514 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Pinnock D. State control and street gangs in Cape Town : towards an understanding of social and spatial development. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Sociology, 1982 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19514 | en_ZA |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.department | Department of Sociology | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.subject.other | Criminology | en_ZA |
| dc.subject.other | Gangs | en_ZA |
| dc.subject.other | Economic History | en_ZA |
| dc.title | State control and street gangs in Cape Town : towards an understanding of social and spatial development | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Master Thesis | |
| dc.type.qualificationlevel | Masters | |
| dc.type.qualificationname | MA | en_ZA |
| uct.type.filetype | Text | |
| uct.type.filetype | Image | |
| uct.type.publication | Research | en_ZA |
| uct.type.resource | Thesis | en_ZA |