PublicationsResearchCriminal Justice, PolicingTowards a New Approach: Monitoring Metropolitan Police Departments by the Gauteng Department for Community SafetySince the Metropolitan Police Departments (MPDs) operating in Gauteng were established three to four years ago, the Department of Community Safety has relied primarily on what has been termed 'Quarterly Reviews' to monitor these agencies. The purpose of this report is to analyse these 'Quarterly Review' reports with a view to establishing their utility for monitoring the effectiveness and efficiency… Read More Gareth NewhamJune 1, 2006
PublicationsResearchDomestic Violence Legislation, Gender-based ViolenceEqual or Different: Comparing Women and Men's Use of the Domestic Violence Act (no. 116 of 1998).The Domestic Violence Act ("the DVA") was introduced as a comprehensive civil remedy for domestic abuse in 1998. Many have sought its protection since, with at least 157 391 applications for protection orders made in 2004 alone. This research brief explores how men and women applying for protection orders at two courts in Gauteng have used the DVA. Read More Vera Schneider and Lisa VettenJune 1, 2006
PublicationsResearchMigrants and Xenophobia, RacismShades of Prejudice: An Investigation into the South African Media's Coverage of Racial Violence and XenophobiaThis report appears as part of the broader Race in Transition Series of the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR). The report reveals the results of an extensive monitoring project of 4500 newspaper articles relating to racial incidents in South Africa over an eight-year period, starting with the advent of democracy in 1994. Read More Jack Fine and William BirdJune 1, 2006
PublicationsResearchTransitional Justice, Violence in Transition, Violence PreventionBetween a Rock and a Hard Place: Violence, Transition and Democratisation. A Consolidated Review of the Violence and Transition ProjectOver the last seven years, the Violence and Transition Project (VTP) at the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) has examined violence in relation to the fields of transitional justice, criminal justice, peacebuilding and reconciliation. This paper serves as a review of the VTP. Read More Bronwyn HarrisApril 10, 2006
PublicationsResearchCriminal Justice, Migrants and Xenophobia, Policing, RacismDiversity and Transformation in the South African Police Service: A Study of Police Perspectives on Race, Gender and the Community in the Johannesburg Policing AreaThe transformation of the South African Police Service (SAPS) by the country’s first democratically elected government started over a decade ago, in 1994. Over a decade later, very little research has been conducted on the impact this transformation process has had on the men and women that make up the SAPS. One of the primary aims of this report, therefore,… Read More Gareth Newham, Themba Masuku and Jabu DlaminiMarch 6, 2006
PublicationsResearchCriminal Justice, PolicingStaggering Under the Burden: ICD Policies on the Receipt of Complaints and on Investigations and Their Negative Impact on the ICD, on Public Confidence, and on Police DisciplineThis paper is not intended to discuss the legal mandate of the Independent Complaints Directorate (ICD) but to rather discuss how it has interpreted this mandate. In recent years the ICD has adopted an approach in terms of which it aims to investigate all cases which it receives. As will be explained in this paper, the approach is not legally necessary,… Read More David BruceFebruary 6, 2006
