This report goes beyond simply looking at the circumstances of occurrence of police custody/action deaths in Gauteng and attempts to provide the framework for a strategy which would aim to assist in the prevention of these deaths, with the intention…
The purpose of this paper is three-fold: to describe the problem of domestic abuse in police families within the context of domestic abuse in South Africa; to highlight particular aspects of domestic abuse by police members by giving voice to…
This chapter has three aims. First, to place violence in South Africa and social responses to it within the interpretive framework of Foucault's theory concerning power and socio-medical knowledge, and to identify the implications that this structuralist approach has for…
Considered crucial to the control and prevention of crime, victim surveys have proliferated over the last couple of years. But do these studies adequately take gender into account in terms of their methodology, analysis and writing up? This short article…
In this report, Polly Dewhirst extracts women's common experiences of violence and trauma in El Salvador, Kenya and Rwanda. Initiatives in these countries to bring together survivors to rebuild their lives are part of the emerging international movement against gender…
The CSVR has been providing assistance to the officials of the Greater Johannesburg Metro Council responsible for developing a crime prevention strategy. This paper is intended to contribute to the development of the Safer Cities strategy for Greater Johannesburg. Data…