Political Violence and the Struggle in South Africa

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 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 12 Violence and the Law: the Use of the Censure in Political Trials in South Africa

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