This paper examines community policing, how it evolved in a policing environment and how academics look at it. It questions whether community policing can provide a basic framework for all police practice and discusses the changes in policing public order…
This is a record of an interview with Carl Klockars and William Geller, two prominent American experts on policing issues. The interview was conducted by Antony Altbeker and Judy Klipin from the Policing Programme at the Wits School of Public…
This document presents an analysis of crime trends in South Africa from 1985 to 1998. It is part of a review of the National Crime Prevention Strategy carried out for the Department of Safety and Security.
Previously, various structures and processes existed to co-ordinate security initiatives at both the international and regional level. This review takes a look at the structures in place and considers some of the challenges facing them with regard to security and…
This is a review of government expenditure on the National Crime Prevention Strategy of 1996 to 1999. The paper is part of a review carried out for the Department of Safety and Security.
This paper describes the "culture of violence" by making reference to the extent of past and current levels of violence in South Africa. The threads of continuity between the so-called political violence that took place during the apartheid era and…