Gang Town. Don Pinnock
make gang membership just about the only option available for income and the context within which to strut your stuff among peers.
Part 6, Towards Resilience, is a complete about-turn on the problem of gangs. On the basis of findings in the previous five sections, it proposes a rethink on early child development, education, after-school care, the war on drugs, policing, imprisonment and the way we work with adolescents. It lays out alternative life-path planning for young people at risk through a compassionate understanding of personal transformation.
The Appendix is a toolbox of things I’ve found to be useful game-changers for parents, teachers and community workers when dealing with high-risk adolescents.
Endnotes
1. In that year 6 643 motor vehicles were reported stolen (18 a day).
2. There is no such thing, in biological or physical terms, as ‘race’ or ‘race groups’. What we understand as ‘race’ is the product of centuries of ideological social construction. The effects of this, however, are real enough and are embedded, even today in ‘non-racial’ South Africa, in statistics and countless official forms. ‘Race’ should be read only as a proxy for other real social processes of marginalisation, opression, exploitation and exclusion. A danger is that when we deploy racial categories, we imagine that the category itself is the causal agent. For this reason, in his article Gender, Class, ‘Race’ and Violence, Don Foster suggests that it is therefore prudent to speak of ‘racialised’ categories or groups (in Youth Violence: Sources and Solutions in South Africa by CL Ward, A Van der Merwe and A Dawes (eds) (UCT Press 2012).
3. Cape Times, July 30 2012, p1.
4. Dolly, Caryn: Cape Times, May 24 2011.
5. Pinnock, Don: The Brotherhoods (David Philip Publishers, Cape Town, 1984).
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