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subjective, quantitative or qualitative evidence (and objective too). Case studies may be a personal accounts or experiences that portray the feelings and impressions and the manner in which those under investigation have been affected. Case studies or evidences attract response from politicians and those in power to make or change policies in defining social problems and also find solutions to them. (Newman and Yeates, 2008, p. 175) (Are all case studies used in this way or for this purpose?). On the other hand case studies do have their strengths and limitations.
One strength of case studies is its power to give ‘extraordinarily rich and vivid’ important evidence that make visible what it was like to live in the times which the case study was drawn from and the particular injustice going on at that time. (Newman and Yeates, 2008, p. 174). The case study of surveillance on the Gated Communities has exposed explicitly vivid evidence of the aftermath of Apartheid in South Africa in 1994 which gave rise to levels of poverty, crime and unemployment (Reference). Gated communities created and strengthened boundaries between populations which increased the sense of insecurity, uncertainty, difference and threat (How was this achieved?) This rapid rise of (a?) private development are guarded by CCTV cameras and guard controlled gate, controlling and monitoring access to outsiders, giving residents like Lieze Schecitier, a sense of safety and security from those that has been excluded or viewed with suspicion or hostility and perceived to be a danger or threat to those in the gated community. (DVD clip, The Open University, 2008). According to Sarah Blandy of the Open University, one way of understanding community is not only of good association (?) but it also acts as a marker of boundaries and difference between those it includes and embraces while denying those excluded. As Barbara Southworth, an urban designer said, “this segregation or division is intentionally created and is based very much around a class and income basis, recreating Apartheid in a market-driven dimension”. (DVD clip, The Open University, 2008). (All apt points but are they strengths or weaknesses in terms of case studies?)
Likewise, another evidence is the case study of the reality of occupational injuries suffered by workers and the poor working conditions at the meatpacking industry in Packingtown (Reference here). Although the novel The Jungle, written by Upton Sinclair is a fictional account, it shows the failure of employers to create a safe working environment for the workers who were mostly immigrants. The accounts of the workers’ experiences and sufferings involved in living in such times could be felt deeply by readers as it gives strong imagination of what it takes to live and survive at the time of the experience (Widdowson, 2008, p.84). (Here you could again reaffirm whether this is strength or weaknesses then continue with how it is a social injustice. This will help develop the argument point before leading onto a further point). The irresponsibility of the employers is perhaps a social crime and a form of social injustice, because it was a ‘behaviour that intentionally threatened and an attempt to inflict physical harm and