‘An Acceptable Level of Violence’ Community Response to Crime: Northern Ireland and South Africa
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Date
2001
Authors
Knox, Colin
Monaghan, Rachel
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Publisher
The Journal of Conflict Studies
Abstract
This paper, drawing on focus group interview material, will therefore examine ways in which the communities in Northern Ireland and South Africa have responded to crime both during the conflict and thereafter. If the raison d’être for ‘political’ crime has been removed once a negotiated settlement is reached and the legitimacy of the State reaffirmed by agreement, can communities then subscribe to the formal system of criminal justice? Given the relatively recent, albeit fragile, arrival of a ‘peace’ settlement to Northern Ireland the paper considers what lessons, if any, can be learned from the South African post-conflict experience and its efforts to deal with community responses to crime.
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Crime, Northern Ireland, South Africa
Citation
Colin Knox and Rachel Monaghan; 2001; ‘An Acceptable Level of Violence’ Community Response to Crime: Northern Ireland and South Africa; The Journal of Conflict Studies; http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/2291