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A violent legacy: policing insurrection in South Africa from Sharpeville to Marikana (2015)
Journal Article
Dixon, B. (2015). A violent legacy: policing insurrection in South Africa from Sharpeville to Marikana. British Journal of Criminology, 55(6), https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azv056

Fifty-two years separate the fatal shootings by police of 69 anti-apartheid protestors at Sharpeville on 21st March 1960 and of 34 striking miners at Marikana on 16th August 2012. The parallels between the two ‘massacres’ are easy to overstate; but... Read More about A violent legacy: policing insurrection in South Africa from Sharpeville to Marikana.

Making further inquiries: policing in context in Brixton and Khayelitsha (2015)
Journal Article
Dixon, B. (2015). Making further inquiries: policing in context in Brixton and Khayelitsha. South African Crime Quarterly, 53, https://doi.org/10.4314/sacq.v53i1.1

Only rarely do inquiries into policing investigate the social context within which it takes place. This article looks at two inquiries which chose to take on this task: Lord Scarman’s into the Brixton Disorders in London in April 1981; and Justice C... Read More about Making further inquiries: policing in context in Brixton and Khayelitsha.