179pp., map, paperback, UJ Press, Johannesburg, 2024
ISBN: 9781776489718
Dariusz Dziewanski on how gang members can – and have – overcome crime and violence and transformed their lives, despite the overwhelming force of street culture, disenfranchisement and disadvantage.
Based on the life histories of 24 former Cape Town gang members and five years of ethnographic research.
Dariusz Dziewanski is currently an Honorary Research Associate at the Centre of Criminology, at the University of Cape Town's Faculty of Law.