This paper aims to highlight the existing knowledge about youth crime and victimisation and some of the risk and resilience factors that point us to various interventions to reduce youth crime and violence. Some of these programmes (especially those that…
This discussion document serves as both a resource on the academic and comparative law treatment of the issues surrounding battered women who kill their abusive spouses and as a basis for debate on how South African law could address these…
Battered women who kill their abusers in South Africa often face barriers to accessing criminal law defences to murder. This document explores the reforms necessary for women to gain access to the defences. It continues the discussion that began in…
The standard explanation for xenephobia is that many local South Africans feel that foreigners 'steal jobs' and are 'criminals'. These elements certainly explain aspects of this trend; they are however incomplete by themselves and fail to provide a comprehensive analysis…
This document presents the comprehensive datasets from the Police Integrity Measurement Survey, which represents the average perceptions of police members at all ranks in the stations where the research took place. This report was designed for use by the South…
This document aims to present the issues raised during the discussions that took place at the Digital Video Conference organised by the United Stated Embassy in Pretoria on 18 August 2003 between the Chief of the Internal Affairs Bureau and…