The making of South African legal culture, 1902-1936 : fear, favour, and prejudice / Martin Chanock.
"The development of the South African legal system in the early twentieth century was crucial to the establishment and maintenance of the systems which underpinned the racist state, including control of the population, the running of the economy, and the legitimisation of the regime. Martin Cha...
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Cambridge ; New York :
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2001.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Puzzles, Paradigms and Problems: 1. Four stories ; 2. Introduction: legal culture, state-making and colonialism
- Part II. Law and Order: 3. Police and policing ; 4. Criminology ; 5. Prisons and penology ; 6. Criminal law ; 7. Criminalising political opposition
- Part III. South African Common Law A: 8. Roman-Dutch law ; 9. Marriage and race ; 10. The legal profession
- Part IV. South African Common Law B: 11. Creating the discourse: customary law and colonial rule in 19th century South Africa ; 12. After union: the segregationist tide ; 13. The Native Appeal Courts and customary law ; 14. Customary law, courts and code after 1927
- Part V. Law and Government: 15. Land 16. Law and labour ; 17. The new province for law and order: struggles on the racial frontier ; 18. A rule of law
- Part VI. Consideration: 19. Reconstructing the state: legal formalism, democracy and a post-colonial rule of law.