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'''The Number''' - book about South Africa’s criminal tradition, was written by [[Jonny Steinberg]]. |
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Revision as of 19:48, 7 June 2017
The Number - book about South Africa’s criminal tradition, was written by Jonny Steinberg.
The Number: One Man's Search for Identity in the Cape Underworld and Prison Gangs is the award-winning book that tells about crime and punishment in ghettos of Cape Town and won South Africa’s premier nonfiction literary award, the Sunday Times Alan Paton Prize.[1]
Prison gangs are one of the primary vehicles for the committing the violence. But unfortunately very little is known about prison violence and how it appears. Jonny Steinberg made a research on prison gangs based in Pollsmoor prison resulting in a remarkable book “The Number” and a monograph Nongoloza’s Children.[2]
About the author
He was born and bred in Johannesburg, South Africa. Steinberg was studied at Wits University in Johannesburg, and at Oxford University as well. He has worked as a journalist at a national daily, written scripts for television drama, and has been a consultant to the South African government on criminal justice policy. He is currently writing a book about immigrants in New York.[3]
Steinberg has written broadlyabout South Africa’s criminal justice system for the Institute for Security Studies in Pretoria and the Center for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation in Johannesburg, South Africa. He got a doctorate in political theory while studying at Oxford University.[4]
Bibliography of Jonny Steinberg
- Midlands. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2002. xii, 259 pages. ISBN 1-86842-124-4
- Thin Blue: The Unwritten Rules of Policing South Africa. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball Publishers, August 2008.
- Little Liberia: An African Odyssey in New York. London: Jonathan Cape Random House, January 2011; Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball Publishers, March 2011
- A Man of Good Hope. London: Jonathan Cape, 2015; ISBN 978-0224094122. New York: Knopf, 2015; ISBN 978-0385352727
- "Nongoloza's Children: Western Cape Prison Gangs During and After Apartheid", Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, 2004
Overview
The Number is one of Jonny Steinberg’s workings that tells about crime and punishment in ghettos of Cape Town. He met the 43-year-old coloured guy that got out the Pollsmoor Prison in Cape Town. He was a member of the 28s that have sin rape and robbery and had spent more than 50 hours discussing his life experiences with Jonny. The name of that person was Magadien Wentzel and the book of J. Steinberg is an account of his journeys to the people and places of Magadien’s past.[5][6]
“The Number can be read as a succinct commentary on the racially and socially warped world of Cape Town. As such, it is a book about marginalization and coping in Cape Town where violence, stigmatization and incarceration are everyday realities for coloured men. And it can be read as a prison ethnography of which there are precious few in a non-western context.”
— Andrew M. Jefferson
References
- ^ Open Society Foundations
- ^ A multi-disciplinary institute involved in research, policy formation, community interventions, service delivery, education and training, as well as providing consultancy services (CSVR)
- ^ Open Society Foundations
- ^ Open Society Foundations
- ^ Steinberg, Jonny: The Number (Jonathan Ball, Cape Town 2004); ISBN 1-868422-05-4
- ^ A public library
Literature
- Jonny Steinberg’s The Number and prison life writing in post‐apartheid South Africa
- “Apostles of civilised vice”: ‘Immoral practices’ and ‘unnatural vice’ in South African prisons and compounds, 1890–1920
- Bhana, D. 2005. “‘Violence and the gendered negotiation of masculinity among young black school boys in South Africa’”. In African Masculinities: Men in Africa from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Present, Edited by: Ouzgane, L. and Morrell, R. 205–20. New York: Palgrave MacMillan.
- ‘I'm too young to die’: HIV, masculinity, danger and desire in urban South Africa by Shannon Walsh & Claudia Mitchell