PublicationsResearchCorrectional Services, Crime PreventionA Decade of Crime Prevention in South Africa from National Strategy to Local ChallengeThe objective of this paper is to refocus attention on the original vision and meaning of the term 'crime prevention' as set out in the National Crime Prevention Strategy. The paper is broken down into three sections that firstly distinguish between what has been termed the 'law-enforcement' approach and the 'crime prevention' approach in the international arena, secondly provides an… Read More Gareth NewhamAugust 1, 2005
PublicationsResearchCriminal Justice, PolicingStrengthening Democratic Policing in South Africa: Enhancing and Coordinating the Internal and External Accountability Systems of the South African Police ServiceThe primary aim of this report is to promote insight and debate into the issue of strengthening democratic policing in South Africa. This is done through exploring the importance and functioning of various police accountability mechanisms in South Africa. Read More Themba MasukuJuly 1, 2005
PublicationsResearchMemory and Memorialisation, Transitional JusticeMemorialization and Reconciliation in Transitional Southern African SocietiesThe purpose of the subsequent report is to assess the role of memorialization in the process of transition from colonial rule to independence (Namibia, Zimbabwe), from apartheid to non-racist democracy (South Africa), from colonial rule and post-colonial dictatorship (Malawi), or from colonial rule and post-colonial civil war (Mozambique) to peaceful, multiparty political contest for majority support. Read More CSVRJuly 1, 2005
PublicationsResearchCorrectional Services, Gender-based ViolenceRules of Engagement: Structuring Sex and Damage in Men's Prisons and BeyondThis following paper analyses data from a previous study of ex-prisoners and prisoners in Gauteng Province, South Africa, to consider the moral economy established by hegemonic inmate culture in which sexual interactions are negotiated. It argues that while this system is based on outside norms of heterosexism, ruptures with these norms occur. Male prison populations are rearranged into gendered categories… Read More Sasha GearMay 2, 2005
PublicationsResearchCriminal Justice, PolicingThe SAPS Johannesburg Area Police Transformation Survey ResultsThis document contains the results of the 2004 South African Police Service (SAPS) Johannesburg Area Transformation Survey as analyzed along the demographic variable of race. This survey was one part of a larger project exploring diversity and the transformation of the SAPS a decade into South Africa's democracy. The overall project was designed so as to provide data that will… Read More Gareth NewhamMay 1, 2005
PublicationsResearchDisability and Violence against Women, Gender-based ViolenceOn the Margins: Violence Against Women with DisabilitiesThe Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) undertook a small-scale exploratory research project on gender-based violence and disabled women. We aimed to make visible the nature and forms of violence against women with disabilities, their particular vulnerabilities to violence, and the barriers they confront accessing assistance. The study focused on women with physical, visual and hearing disabilities… Read More Ereshnee Naidu, Sadiyya Haffejee, Lisa Vetten and Samantha HargreavesApril 1, 2005
