{"title":"“Democracy Stops at My Front Door”","authors":"Hannah Britton","doi":"10.5622/ILLINOIS/9780252043093.003.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5622/ILLINOIS/9780252043093.003.0001","url":null,"abstract":"The introduction examines the context of gender-based violence in postapartheid South Africa. Democratization brought remarkable political gains for women electorally and legislatively, yet rates of gender-based violence continue unabated. Set within the backdrop of several high-profile cases of sexual assault and intimate-partner violence, this chapter argues that efforts to address gender-based violence have centered on legal responses, policy making, and carceral approaches. While policies and prosecutions are necessary, they are incomplete strategies for addressing interpersonal violence in the home, family, and community. The service providers, street-level bureaucrats, and community leaders in this study argue that gender-based violence is nested within interlocking systems of racism, sexism, and inequality.","PeriodicalId":331361,"journal":{"name":"Ending Gender-Based Violence","volume":"17 11","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133204044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Police","authors":"Hannah Britton","doi":"10.5622/illinois/9780252043093.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252043093.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"The South African police are widely critiqued for their institutional failures and widespread corruption, but the communities in this project point to the importance of the police in efforts to address violence, punish perpetrators, and protect survivors. This is a chilling finding, given the wide discretion the police exercise in cases of abuse and violence. This chapter examines some of the factors that help police stations become positive community leaders, including sector policing, visible policing, community policing, and victim support. The chapter also reveals their overreliance on contracting out key service delivery to volunteers. Volunteers and police also expressed a high level of burnout and secondary trauma working in this sector.","PeriodicalId":331361,"journal":{"name":"Ending Gender-Based Violence","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115454124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Moving beyond Carceral Feminism","authors":"Hannah Britton","doi":"10.5622/ILLINOIS/9780252043093.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5622/ILLINOIS/9780252043093.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"Recently in South Africa, social problems such as gender-based violence are interpreted primarily as legal issues that may be ameliorated by carceral solutions. These approaches are appealing because political leaders know how to set sentencing guidelines, monitor arrests, and track prosecutions. Yet what the postapartheid case underscores is that such reactive approaches are woefully inadequate to address the complexity of violence that individuals, families, and communities face. The service providers in this project argue that the prevention of gender-based violence starts with community-based approaches. When communities are strengthened, leaders are better able to foster social transformation. Service providers are calling for a broader understanding of the upstream solutions to address all forms of violence and to uproot the legacies of violence and oppression.","PeriodicalId":331361,"journal":{"name":"Ending Gender-Based Violence","volume":"262 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116451344","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}