PublicationsResearchChildren and Youth, Youth ViolenceBuilding Safety. Facilitators Guide for Educators to Stimulate an Understanding of ViolenceThe following course has been designed to help young people to deal with conflict and violence in their relationships, homes, schools and communities The course will emphasise good communication skills as key to dealing with violence. The ability to hear what people are trying to say when they use force instead of language, and the confidence to speak openly without… Read More Yvette Geyer and Bea RobertsDecember 19, 2001
PublicationsResearchChildren and Youth, Youth ViolenceSafety Now. Step by Step Guide on How to Develop a Safe Schools PolicyThis subsequent document is a step by step guide on how to develop a Safe School Policy ( A Safe School Policy is a plan on how to deal with crime and violence at school ). Read More Tracy Vienings, Carla Commys and Yvette GeyerDecember 19, 2001
PolicyPublicationsResearchPolicy-Making, Transitional JusticeFuture Challenges to Policy-Making in Countries in TransitionThe subsequent document is a report on the Presentation to the Workshop Comparative Experiences of Policy Making and Implementation in Countries in Transition, 6th - 7th February 2001, Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland. The report reflects on discussions such as the patterns of need and popular expectation change, how policy is not just about vision, the specific character of transition affects the… Read More Graeme Simpson, Brandon Hamber and Noel StottDecember 7, 2001
PublicationsResearchChildren and Youth, Correctional Services, Criminal Justice, Gender-based ViolenceNow We Have Nothing: Exploring the Impact of Maternal Imprisonment on Children Whose Mothers Killed an Abusive PartnerThis study looks to reveal that long-term imprisonment for a mother who has killed her abusive partner is not in her children's best interests. To substantiate this the report explains and demonstrates the complex and serious consequences for children who live in the context of domestic violence, whose fathers are killed by their mothers, and who subsequently lose their mothers… Read More Kailash Bhana and Tessa HochfeldDecember 3, 2001
PublicationsResearchCriminal Justice, PolicingA Duty to Answer Questions? The Police, the Independent Complaints Directorate and the Right to Remain SilentThe following paper focuses on police accountability in the context of police powers. Mechanisms to compel police co-operation in internal investigations, and with the ICD in its investigations are considered within the context of the current Constitutional framework. Read More David Bruce, Kate Savage and Johan De WaalDecember 3, 2001
PublicationsResearchCriminal Justice, PolicingWitnesses in the Criminal Justice System: A Report on Focus Groups with Detectives and Prosecutors at Moroka Police Station and Protea Magistrates Court in SowetoProblems in the South African Criminal Justice System are well known and have been documented in countless reports. This report focuses on these same problems but differs in trying to understand how these problems impact on witnesses and their role in the criminal justice system. Read More Sibusiso Ntuli and David BruceDecember 3, 2001
