Popular justice in the new South Africa: Policing the boundaries of freedom

Legitimacy and Criminal Justice: International Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 215-237

  Comaroff, John ^a   Comaroff, Jean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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