Correctional Services Tag

This research brief makes Gauteng's women prisoners its focus, describing who they are and setting out findings about the conditions and circumstances of their imprisonment. It emphasizes three aspects of imprisonment that particularly concerned the women we interviewed: contact with…

Sadiyya Haffejee, Lisa Vetten and Mike Greyling
19 Dec 2006

This following research brief presents findings from a study conducted in three women's prisons in Gauteng exploring these two questions. It briefly describes the nature and extent of violence experienced by women and girls in conflict with the law, both…

Sadiyya Haffejee, Lisa Vetten and Mike Greyling
19 Dec 2006

This report details the results of a piece of research or "situational analysis" that aimed to gather information mainly on issues related to violence, sex and sexual violence as experienced by the young men held at Boksburg Youth Centre (BYC)….

Sasha Gear, Mark Isserow and Camilia Nevill
01 Dec 2006

This conference paper discusses the faulty premises underlying theories of punitive justice, and highlights the problems caused by the use of punitive justice as a means of dealing with various kinds of human rights violations. The paper puts forward a…

EZZAT A. FATTAH
01 Sep 2006
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