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Periodical article Periodical article Leiden University catalogue Leiden University catalogue WorldCat catalogue WorldCat
Title:Race, Crime, Welfare and State Social Institutions in South Africa from the 1940s
Author:Badroodien, AzeemISNI
Year:1999
Periodical:Social Dynamics
Volume:25
Issue:2
Period:Summer
Pages:49-74
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:Coloureds
social policy
Politics and Government
History and Exploration
Ethnic and Race Relations
Law, Human Rights and Violence
External link:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02533959908458675
Abstract:This paper focuses on government industrial schools as an aspect of welfare provision for 'coloured' children in South Africa from 1948. It unravels the ideas and ideologies which contributed to the establishment in 1948 of the first government industrial school for 'coloured' boys, Ottery School of Industries in Cape Town. Starting with a definition of government industrial schools and a brief description of its historical origins in South Africa, the paper shows how perceptions of 'coloured' crime, of the social conditions of 'coloured' people in the late 1930s and early 1940s, and social order were firmly linked in the 1940s to ideas within State policy of 'problem families', of the relationship between poverty and crime, and later of heriditarian theories of criminality. By ignoring the historical link between welfare provision in South Africa and notions of crime, race and social order, it is quite possible that policymakers in the postapartheid period will reinforce and perpetuate many of the stereotypes generated in previous policy. Notes, ref.
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