Answer to Question #186455 in Law for leo

Question

The National Crime Prevention Strategy (1996) highlights specific factors that contribute to crime in South Africa. Which factor refers to the notion that old social control methods were illegal, and that pre-1994 South African society was largely overregulated, undemocratic and unaccountable

Answer 1

The factors that refer to the notion that old social control methods were illegal and that pre-1994 South African society was largely overregulated, undemocratic and unaccountable are deprivation because of apartheid and destruction of economical control.

They include: 1.Political culture, violence and the destruction of cultural control

2.Socio-psychological factor and the destruction of political control

3.The negotiated transition and the destruction of social control 

4.Deprivation because of apartheid and the destruction of economical control