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Author: search.filters.author.Masuku, KwaneleSubject: search.filters.subject.Child abuse--South Africa

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    'Credible' child perpetrators: A critical discourse analysis of South African juvenile murderers
    (2019) Masuku, Kwanele
    Constructions of violence constrain women and children to victims and men to perpetrators, and imply that children are, at all times pure, innocent and, vulnerable. As such, child perpetrated crimes contradict these normative constructions, thus rendering child perpetrators inconceivable. The aim of this research was thus to identify resistance discourse that oppose these normative constructions of violence. This was achieved by interviewing incarcerated juvenile-offenders from juvenile correctional centres in South Africa. After the interviews were transcribed, the transcripts were subjected to Parker’s (1992, 2004) critical discourse analysis. The findings illustrate how normative constructions of childhood and violence render child perpetrators inconceivable. Additionally, the analysis surfaced resistance discourse which challenge normative constructions of childhood and violence, and provide counter-knowledge on violence and crime within South Africa.
These data are sensitive. This dataset contains records of deaths, torture, rape and sexual assault. Please be aware of the fact, that this might be disturbing. We encourage you to reuse this data in the public interest. We will assist you in the reuse of this data where possible. Please cite "Nechama Brodie (2019) Femicide in South African news media (2012/2013). A thesis submitted 15 March 2019 see http://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/handle/10539/29294 Please contact Nechama.Brodie@wits.ac.za to discuss the data and for more details regarding this research.