Index

Dariusz Dziewanski (University of Cape Town's Faculty of Law, South Africa)

Gang Entry and Exit in Cape Town

ISBN: 978-1-83909-731-7, eISBN: 978-1-83909-730-0

Publication date: 4 October 2021

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Dziewanski, D. (2021), "Index", Gang Entry and Exit in Cape Town, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 177-179. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83909-730-020210010

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Copyright © 2021 Dariusz Dziewanski. Published under exclusive licence by Emerald Publishing Limited


INDEX

Acting Street.
, 62–70

aggression
, 54–55

crazy
, 67, 70

fearlessness
, 129–130

kapadien
, 63

African Gangs
, 19, 21, 35–37

Central Africa
, 29–31

East Africa
, 26–29

Southern Africa
, 24–26

West Africa
, 31–35

Agency
, 7, 44, 77, 130, 154

Anderson
, 61–62, 74

Apartheid
, 8, 10–11, 13, 70, 137, 156

District Six
, 9

Group Areas Act
, 9

swart gevaar
, 16–17

Area boys
, 33–35

Bakassi Boys
, 32–33

Bashege
, 30–31

Beachboys
, 26–27

Black Sowetan gangsters. See also Tsotsis
, 19–20

Boko Haram
, 32–33

Bourdieusian sociological theory
, 77

constructivist structuralism
, 73–74

cultural capital
, 6, 39

habitus
, 6–7, 72

social capital
, 39

social field
, 6–7, 41–42, 121

social practice
, 6–7, 64

social reproduction
, 7–8, 72, 154–155

social transformation
, 72

symbolic capital
, 45

symbolic violence
, 43–44

Bourgois
, 11–12, 96

Cape Town
, 1, 11, 39, 44, 138

Americans
, 1–2, 56

Cape Flats
, 1–2, 4, 11, 16–17

City Bowl
, 1, 6

cliques
, 20–21

crews
, 20–21

Ghetto Kids
, 2, 45

Hard Livings
, 1–2, 96

informal settlement
, 47, 127, 130, 137–138, 143–144

Laughing Boys
, 2, 4, 43, 86

Mongrels
, 2, 45, 47–48, 130, 135, 139

prison gangs
, 14–15, 47

street gangs
, 1–2

Stoepa Boys
, 60–61

suburbs
, 13, 41–42

Vatos
, 20–21

Victoria and Alfred Waterfront (V&A Waterfront)
, 43

Vuras
, 20–21

Central Africa, gangs in
, 29–31

Colonialism in Africa
, 22–23

Coloured people
, 8

communities
, 1–2

history
, 8

identity
, 8

Critical criminology
, 36–37

Cultural capital
, 6, 39

negative cultural capital
, 66

Cultural repertoire
, 19–20, 82–83, 116

Delinquency
, 23–24, 37

Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
, 29

Desistance
, 107

Disengagement
, 78, 80–81, 107, 113, 122

barriers
, 72–73, 75

de-identification
, 80

de-embeddedness
, 80

maturation
, 77–78

Domestic repertoire
, 93–94

breadwinning
, 92

children
, 4

marriage
, 81–82

Dressing street
, 55–62

brand names
, 10–11, 60

sneakers
, 45, 108, 112

street style
, 19–20, 109–110, 112

Drugs in Cape Town
, 16, 149

heroine
, 26–27, 31, 68, 140

Mandrax
, 10–11, 24, 68

marijuana
, 10–11, 24

methamphetamine
, 31, 68, 96–97, 140

Drug trafficking in Southern Africa
, 31

East Africa, gangs in
, 26–29

Eswatini
, 24

Fraser
, 21, 25–26, 72–73

Gang(s). See also African Gangs
, 1–3, 19–20

definition
, 1–2

membership
, 4–5, 44

nicknames
, 5, 120–121

prevention
, 16–18, 50, 120–121, 149–150

tattoo
, 54, 60, 150–151

typologies in Cape Town
, 21

Gangsterism
, 4, 6–7, 9–10, 19–20, 49–50, 65–66, 94–95, 147

definition
, 2–3, 6–7

risk factors
, 78

Gang violence
, 4, 19, 144–145

benefits
, 22, 151–152

cycles of
, 148–149

drivers
, 78, 152

murder statistics in Cape Town
, 1, 12

offending
, 116

victimisation
, 3, 11–12

Hacking
, 57

Kaapse Klopse
, 50–51

Kenya
, 21, 27–28, 37

Kikuyu
, 27

Kuluna
, 29–31, 36

Looping effect
, 57

Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND)
, 32–33

Mungiki
, 27–28, 36

Nelson Mandela Bay gangs
, 19

Neo-apartheid
, 12

discrimination
, 156

inequality
, 21

segregation
, 12, 40

unemployment
, 5–6

Normal life
, 7–8, 82–83

normality
, 82–83

repertoires, of normal life. See also Domestic repertoire; Professional repertoire; Religious repertoire
, 82–83, 140–141

Nigeria
, 21, 31, 33, 36–37

Kano
, 33–35

Lagos
, 33–35

Organised crime
, 9–10, 24, 29

Passion gap
, 144

People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (PAGAD)
, 33

Policing
, 16, 26, 137, 150

hard policing
, 15, 18

Political militias
, 23–24, 147

Port Elizabeth gangs. See also Nelson Mandela Bay gangs
, 19

Prison gangs
, 1–2, 16–17

Franse
, 50–51

Ndotas
, 50–52, 65, 93, 125, 131–132

number, the
, 5, 26–27, 51–53, 155–156

Sabela
, 46, 48–51, 63, 93, 104–105, 131–132

Professional repertoire
, 82–83

barriers to finding work
, 99

employment
, 5, 41–42

Qualitative research
, 17

ethnography
, 36–37

life history
, xiv–xv, 130

Religious repertoire
, 89, 110

church clothes
, 107–108

churchgoing
, 108

kerk broer
, 88–89, 108

man of God
, 89

religion
, 107

scripture
, 104–105, 113

spirituality
, 123

Sandberg
, 41–42, 72–73

Skollie
, 16–17

Social disorganisation
, 150–151

Cape Town
, 18

theory
, 37

South African National Defence Forces (SANDF)
, 16

Operation Lockdown
, 16

South African Police Service
, 33

Anti-Gang Unit
, 16

South African Prevention of Organised Crime Act (POCA)
, 13–15

Southern Africa, gangs in
, 24–26

Speaking Street
, 49–55

Kaaps
, 48–49, 53, 93

Sabela
, 46, 48–51, 63, 93, 104–105, 131–132

Street-based youth
, 25–26

Street children
, 25–26

Street culture
, 6–7, 75, 77, 109

Bourdieusian criminology
, 7–8

global street culture
, 6–7, 44–45

locking-in effect
, 7

practical dimensions of street practice
, 73–75

street-based dispositions
, 96, 140

street capital
, 44, 49, 94, 118

street habitus
, 70–73

street repertoire
, 45–46

street talk
, 49, 122

street virtuosos
, 74–75, 95, 154

Structure
, 13–14, 19, 40–41, 90, 107, 130

Structural violence
, 12

Tanzania
, 26–27, 36

Terrorism
, 32–33

Tsotsis
, 19–20

Tupac Shakur
, 34–35, 133

globalised oppositional repertoire
, 34–35

‘Hit ‘Em Up’
, 133–134

United States gang policy
, 13–14, 19

Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO Act)
, 13–14

war on gangs
, 15, 27–28

Vigilantism. See also Self-defence groups; Self-protection groups
, 19, 33, 147

West Africa, gangs in
, 31–35

Yandaba
, 34–35

Zimbabwe
, 24–26, 36