Cars, compounds and containers: Judicial and extrajudicial infrastructures of punishment in the ‘old’ and ‘new’ South Africa

This paper examines non-state infrastructures of vigilante violence in marginalized spaces in South Africa. I argue that car trunks, shacks, containers, and other everyday receptacles function as the underside of official institutions, such as prisons and police lock-ups, and bear historical imprint...

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Main Author: Super, Gail (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2022
In: Punishment & society
Year: 2022, Volume: 24, Issue: 5, Pages: 824-842
Online Access: Presumably Free Access
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Keywords:
Legal pluralism
Inequality
penal infrastructures
Carceral geography
penal history
Colonialism
South Africa
kidnapping
forcible confinement
extrajudicial punishment
Vigilante violence