Violence in the name of democracy: Community policing, vigilante action & nation-building in South Africa

Domesticating Vigilantism in Africa

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 139-162

  Kirsch, Thomas G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

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