PublicationsResearchCorrectional Services, Criminal Justice, Policing, Restorative JusticeSubmission to the Portfolio Committee on Correctional Services: Prison LabourThis is a submission to the department of correctional services by the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) regarding the issue of prison labour. The submission gives a brief history of the use of prison labour in South Africa and its racist underpinnings, as well as the current nature of prison labour. The submission discusses the rights… Read More CSVRMarch 1, 2010
PublicationsResearchCriminal Justice, Policing"The Ones in the Pile Were the Ones Going Down": The Reliability of Violent Crime StatisticsIn recent years there have been numerous press reports on the manipulation of crime statistics that have highlighted the existence of incentives within the SAPS not to record violent crime. This article argues that there are several peculiarities in crime statistics, and that these can be understood as linked to non-recording. This implies that current violent crime statistics cannot be… Read More David BruceMarch 1, 2010
PublicationsResearchPeacebuilding, Transitional Justice, Trauma and Transition, Truth CommissionsNegotiating Transition: The Limits of the South African Model for the Rest of AfricaThis report provides information and details from the seminar, ‘Negotiating Transition: The Limits of the South African Model for the Rest of Africa,’. The seminar explored the impact that the South African model of transitional justice has had in other contexts. It also looked at the effect that political deals such as governments of national unity have on the possibility… Read More CSVRMarch 1, 2010
PublicationsResearchTorture and State Violence, Trauma and TransitionTraumatic Stress Update (volume 1, number 2)In this edition of the Traumatic Stress update, we wish to express some of the varied events and day-to-day goings-on of the Trauma and Transition Programme (TTP). Read More Dominique Dix-PeekFebruary 1, 2010
PublicationsResearchCriminal Justice, Violence PreventionThe War Against the Causes of Crime, Advocacy for Social Crime Prevention in the Face of Tougher Law EnforcementThis article aims to contribute to the debate about the obstacles and challenges to implementing social crime prevention in South Africa. It does so by engaging briefly with three questions: 1. How can the state response to crime in the post-1994 period be characterised? 2. What are the obstacles to social crime prevention in South Africa? 3. Is it correct… Read More David Bruce and Chandre GouldDecember 1, 2009
PublicationsResearchCriminal Justice, Psychosocial Support, Torture and State ViolenceProfiling Torture 2: Addressing Torture and Its Consequences in South AfricaThe Trauma and Transition Programme (TTP) was set up by the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) to offer counselling services to victims of violence and torture. This report looks at 2009 and describes the group of torture clients who received counselling services in 2009; details the characteristics of clients who completed an Intake Assessment in 2009;… Read More Dominique Dix-Peek and Monica BandeiraDecember 1, 2009
