"Cape Town after Apartheid is a major contribution to the field of urban studies and criminal justice. It provides a framework for understanding gangs, violence, and neoliberal crime policies, emphasizing how security policies are rooted both in neoliberalism and apartheid-era policy and how they serve to strengthen gangs and fail to stem violence." —John Hagedorn, author of A World of ... Read moreGangs "Samara’s book masterfully connects the dots between local segregation in South Africa and what he calls the ‘transnational network of neoliberal urban governance.’ Samara’s brilliant treatment of crime, ‘terrorism,’ and gang violence also reminds us of the profound social degradation that the next struggle for genuine emancipation must confront." —Patrick Bond, University of KwaZulu-Natal Centre for Civil Society Show Less