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Periodical article | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | Race, Crime, Welfare and State Social Institutions in South Africa from the 1940s |
Author: | Badroodien, Azeem |
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. |