PublicationsResearchCorrectional Services, Criminal Justice, GangsNongoloza's Children: Western Cape Prison Gangs During and After ApartheidThe subsequent monograph is an attempt at understanding the substance of South African prison life and the strange narratives and rituals of prison gangs. It is by no means a comprehensive history of prison gangs in the Western Cape. Rather, it is potted and thematic, its conclusions interpretive and discursive. It is hoped that other researchers might use its ideas… Read More Jonny SteinbergDecember 19, 2004
PolicyPublicationsResearchCorrectional Services, Criminal JusticeSubmission to the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Correctional Services on the Draft White Paper on Corrections in South AfricaThe following paper is a response to the Submission to the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Correctional Services Draft White Paper on Corrections in South Africa, December 2003. The paper provides specific comments on the concepts of rehabilitation, correction, development and restoration. Read More CSVRDecember 19, 2004
PublicationsResearchCriminal Justice, PolicingTowards Improving Collaboration Between the South African Police Service and the Metropolitan Police ServicesThis report contextualizes the objective of inter-agency collaboration through an overview of international literature. It highlights the increasingly recognized need for closer partnerships between law-enforcement agencies as a means to enhancing local level crime prevention initiatives. There is much that can be learned for South Africa as a result of these initiatives in other countries. In particular, this report considers… Read More Gareth Newham and Themba MasukuDecember 6, 2004
PublicationsResearchCriminal Justice, Policing, Truth and Reconciliation CommissionPolice Transformation and the South African TRCThe subsequent report looks to reflect on the relationship between South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (hereafter referred to as the TRC) and the country's national police agency, the South African Police Service (SAPS), in order to assess whether the TRC had any impact on the institutional transformation of the police service. Read More Janine RauchDecember 6, 2004
PublicationsResearchMigrants and Xenophobia, RacismRace, Citizenship and Violence in Transitioning Societies: A Guatemalan Case StudyThe following paper focuses on race, and the nature of negotiated transitions, as well as the thin line between political and social conflict; a line which is often blurred during democratic transitions. In addition to looking at South Africa's own experience (cf. reports in the Race and Citizenship in Transition Series), the paper incorporates an in-depth examination of these same… Read More Nahla ValjiDecember 6, 2004
PublicationsResearchMemory and Memorialisation, Transitional JusticeSymbolic Reparations: A Fractured OpportunityThe following report is primarily a discussion document that seeks to record some of the initiatives that government, communities and civil society have engaged upon with regards to memorialization initiatives. In documenting these initiatives, the report highlights some of the challenges and successes that major stakeholders face, as well as the needs of victims and communities around memorialization processes. Read More Ereshnee NaiduDecember 6, 2004
