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…
After a prolonged delay the amendment to Section 49 of the Criminal Procedure Act, the law regulating the use of lethal force for arrest, was brought into operation on 18 July, almost 5 years after being passed by Parliament in…
The aim of this document is to present suggestions that could become part of an anticorruption strategy for the South African Police Services (SAPS) Area Johannesburg. The ideas presented in this paper have been documented in much of the literature…
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…