Jonny Steinberg

Jonny Steinberg is the author of several books about crime, policing and punishment in the wake of South Africa's transition to democracy. Two of them, Midlands (2002), about the murder of a white South African farmer, and The Number (2004), a biography of a prison gangster, won South Africa's premier nonfiction award, the Sunday Times Alan Paton Prize. His books also include Thin Blue (2008), an exploration of the unwritten rules of engagement between South African civilians and police. Jonny has also written several monographs on criminal justice policy for South African think tanks and has published widely in journals such as the British Journal of Criminology, Theoretical Criminology and Policing & Society. He is an Associate Professor of African Studies at Oxford University and is a research associate at the Institute for Humanities in Africa (Huma) at the University of Cape Town.