Chapter 1 The Time of the Comrades: Reflections on Political Commitment and Professional Discourse in a Context of Political Violence

Chapter 2 The Epidemiology and Culture of Violence

Chapter 3 The Concept of Violence

Chapter 4 Discourses on Political Violence

Chapter 5 The Shooting at Uitenhage, 1985: the Context and Interpretation of Violence

Chapter 6 Symbolizing Violence: State and Media Discourse in TV Coverage of Township Protest, 1985–7

Chapter 7 From Biko to Wendy Orr: the Problem of Medical Accountability in Contexts of Political Violence and Torture

Chapter 8 Detention and Violence: Beyond Victimology

Chapter 9 State Violence in South Africa and the Development of a Progressive Psychology

Chapter 10 Political Oppression and Children in South Africa: the Social Construction of Damaging Effects

Chapter 11 Crowds and their Vicissitudes: Psychology and Law in the South African Court-room

Chapter 13 Sentencing in Cases of Public Violence

Chapter 14 Images of Punishment in the People’s Courts of Cape Town 1985–7: from Prefigurative Justice to Populist Violence