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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 authorHe 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
OverviewThe 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] {{quote|“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}}References1. ^[https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org Open Society Foundations] 2. ^A multi-disciplinary institute involved in research, policy formation, community interventions, service delivery, education and training, as well as providing consultancy services (CSVR) 3. ^[https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org Open Society Foundations] 4. ^[https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org Open Society Foundations] 5. ^Steinberg, Jonny: The Number (Jonathan Ball, Cape Town 2004); {{ISBN|1-868422-05-4}} 6. ^[https://www.overdrive.com A public library] Literature
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