PublicationsResearchCorrectional Services, Criminal JusticeProfile of a Death Row PrisonerThis research project attempted to make a beginning at establishing whether structural violence did in fact play a significant part in the upbringing and experiences of those on Pretoria's death row. The project sought to construct a profile of the condemned prisoner. In order to establish biographical details, relatives and friends of 26 people on death row in 1988 were interviewed. The project also attempted to assess the legal road people had travelled to death row. Records were examined of the trials in which 40 people (including the 26 in the first sample) were sentenced to death. The samples drawn on were small, but it was hoped that the project was nevertheless a useful initial venture into an unchartered territory. Read More Jo-Ann BekkerFebruary 3, 1989
PublicationsResearchChildren and Youth, South African PsychologyGrowing Up in Violent Situations: The South African SituationThe author discusses the topic of growing up in violent situations from a number of perspectives. Firstly, she gives a psychological perspective to the notion of resilience, invulnerability or stress resistance, as she thinks that the psychological factors form a crucial base from which to consider long term sequelae and plan ways of intervention and prevention. In order to place the South African situation in a context she looks at some of the descriptions of the traditionally described stressors of childhood, and then considers the more extreme stresses. Finally, she presents some of the research and ideas that are being formulated about the South African situation. Read More Diana ShmuklerFebruary 3, 1989
PublicationsResearchMental Health, Psychosocial SupportThe Development of an Appropriate Psychology: The Work of the Organisation of Appropriate Social Services in South AfricaThis paper seeks to address the question of what is an appropriate psychology in South Africa and the Organisation for Appropriate Social Services in South Africa (OASSSA) contribution to it. Work within OASSSA takes a variety of forms: emergency services training, research, education, media and information, and therapeutic treatment. Read More Lloyd VogelmanJune 1, 1987
PublicationsResearchCriminal Justice, Policing, VigilantismVigilantes: A Contemporary Form of RepressionThis paper will seek to suggest that the operation of vigilante groups in South Africa's black areas since 1985 is an expression of the militarisation of South Africa, that the prevalence and operation of these groups should be seen as the internal equivalent of the strategy of destabilisation of neighbouring states. Read More Nicholas HaysomMay 25, 1985
