PublicationsResearchCorrectional Services, Criminal Justice, Gender-based ViolenceViolence and Abuse in the Lives of Women and Girls Incarcerated in Three Gauteng Women's PrisonsThis 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 prior to as well as during incarceration; and the relationship between such experiences of violence and the commission of unlawful… Read More Sadiyya Haffejee, Lisa Vetten and Mike GreylingDecember 19, 2006
PublicationsResearchCorrectional Services, Criminal Justice, Gender-based ViolenceMinority Report: The Imprisonment of Women and Girls in GautengThis 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 children and family; health and wellbeing; and opportunities for further education and reintegration into society. Read More Sadiyya Haffejee, Lisa Vetten and Mike GreylingDecember 19, 2006
PublicationsResearchCorrectional Services, Criminal Justice, Youth ViolenceSituational Analysis of Boksburg Youth Centre: Sexual Violence in Prison Pilot Project (Dec 2004 – Jan 2005) Survey ReportThis 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). It also touched on some of their characteristics and experiences in the institution more broadly. Read More Sasha Gear, Mark Isserow and Camilia NevillDecember 1, 2006
PublicationsResearchCorrectional Services, Criminal Justice, Ex-combatant Reintegration and Demilitarisation, Violence in TransitionIs Punishment the Appropriate Response to Gross Human Rights Violations? Is a Non-punitive Justice System Feasible?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 series of arguments in favour of using restorative justice to manage human rights abuses. Read More EZZAT A. FATTAHSeptember 1, 2006
PublicationsResearchCorrectional Services, Criminal JusticePrison Overcrowding and the Constitutional Right to Adequate Accommodation in South AfricaThe subsequent paper commissioned by the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation in January 2005, takes a look at the multiple facets of the prison environment in relation to overcrowding as well as accommodation. It reflects on the puzzling decisions with regards to legislature, prison trends in post-apartheid South Africa and the various applicable litigation strategies and remedies… Read More Jonny SteinbergDecember 19, 2005
PublicationsResearchCorrectional Services, Criminal Justice, Youth ViolenceVuka S'hambe: Young Prisoners' AwakeningIn 1999 CSVR undertook a project called 'The Voices of Young Offenders' which involved 24 offenders incarcerated at Leeuwkop prison. This research study investigated some of the reasons these youth ended up in jail, their ideas about crime and violence. Vuka S'hambe arose out of this project. It began as a life skills project aimed at reintegration of young prisoners… Read More Lindiwe MkhondoDecember 19, 2005
