This paper looks at the effects of political and criminal violence on township children. It focuses on children as victims rather than perpetrators of violence, although the latter can also be said to be victims of violence.
This paper draws on interviews held in October and November 1991 with 34 residents of Alexandra and 18 key informants associated with defence, policing, health and welfare, education and the administration of the township. The paper attempts to profile how violent crime has impacted upon the lives of people living in an area of Alexandra, Gauteng. The research locates the broader questions about the nature, extent, impact and control of violent crime within the narrow context of a small, community-based study focusing on the respondents' perceptions of, and reactions to violent crime.
The involuntary confinement of the mentally ill describes the legal process by which a person is imprisoned for an indeterminate period not because they have committed any criminal act but because they are allegedly ill. This paper raises a series of concerns with this practice, and its implementation in South Africa. It concludes by offering a series of legal and legislative reforms concerning the practice.
What is the nature of violence? Where does it come from and what motivates those who perpetrate it? And what can business do to protect itself and its employees from the ravages of violence? With these questions in mind, The Innes Labour Brief approached Graeme Simpson and Lloyd Vogelman of the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation for their views on the subject. This paper is a collection of those views.
The most significant police reform initiatives of the post-De Klerk period were the South African Police's Strategic Plan and the National Peace Accord provisions on policing. This paper evaluates these provisions, and critically assesses the state of police reform in South Africa.
This paper attempts to clarify the concept of community policing and looks at its underlying principles and their significance for the South African context.