Mark Shaw

Mark Shaw is the author of Hitmen for Hire and Give Us More Guns and, recently, of Breaking the Bombers: How the Hunt for Pagad Created a Crack Police Unit. He is currently Director of the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime. Previously the National Research Foundation Professor of Justice and Security at the University of Cape Town, he also worked for ten years at the UN Office on Drugs and Crime. He has held various positions in government and civil society in South Africa, working on issues of public safety and urban violence during the post-apartheid transition.

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