CSVR | Growing Up in Violent Situations: The South African Situation

Publications, Research, Children and Youth, South African Psychology

Growing Up In Violent Situations: The South African Situation

The 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.

Diana Shmukler

03 Feb 1989

Publications, Research, Correctional Services, Criminal Justice

Profile Of A Death Row Prisoner

This 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.

Jo-Ann Bekker

03 Feb 1989

Publications, Research, Mental Health, Psychosocial Support

The Development Of An Appropriate Psychology: The Work Of The Organisation Of Appropriate Social Services In South Africa

This 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.

Lloyd Vogelman

01 Jun 1987

Publications, Research, Criminal Justice, Policing, Vigilantism

Vigilantes: A Contemporary Form Of Repression

This 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.

Nicholas Haysom

25 May 1985

Growing Up in Violent Situations: The South African Situation

Growing Up In Violent Situations: The South African Situation

Profile Of A Death Row Prisoner

The Development Of An Appropriate Psychology: The Work Of The Organisation Of Appropriate Social Services In South Africa

Vigilantes: A Contemporary Form Of Repression

When Yes is Not Free – Power Coercion and Consent in South Africa

Rights on Paper, Inequality in Practice: South Africa's 30 Years of Unfinished Constitutional Promise

In the Shadow of Femicide: The Unseen Trauma of Families in Search of Healing and Justice

Behind the Screen: How Digital Tools are Fuelling Gender-Based Violence

Transformative Transitional Justice and Climate Action: Nurturing Synergies for Climate Justice

Promoting Transitional Justice and Accountability in Africa

Justice for Africans and People of African Descent Through Reparations – Report of the Ninth African Transitional Justice Forum – FRENCH

Local Transitional Justice Practices for Climate Justice: The Case of Nkhulambe, Malawi

The State of Transitional Justice in Africa Volume 3 The Role of Civil Society – PORTUGUESE

The State of Transitional Justice in Africa Volume 3 The Role of Civil Society – FRENCH

The State of Transitional Justice in Africa Volume 3 The Role of Civil Society – ARABIC

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