PublicationsResearchCorrectional Services, Criminal Justice, Violence in TransitionReform and Stasis: Transformation in South African PrisonsThis paper will look at some of the important changes that have been brought about in policy and legislation regarding the prison system in the last few years. It will also look at some issues which create resistance to change in this area. Read More Amanda Dissel and Stephen EllisDecember 19, 2002
PublicationsResearchCorrectional Services, Urban SafetyThinking Big: The National Urban Renewal Programme and Crime Prevention in South Africa's Metropolitan CitiesThis paper focuses only on implementation of the Urban Renewal Programme (URP) in the Metropolitan Municipalities, in line with the scope of the CSVR's City Safety Project. There was at the time two Urban Renewal Nodes (Mndantsane and Galeshewe) located in non-metropolitan municipalities, which will not be discussed in this report. Read More Janine RauchDecember 2, 2002
ArticlesMediaCorrectional ServicesSex Behind the Bars'He may be fucking his cellmate every night' but if you ask him: 'Have you had a homosexual experience in prison?' he will truthfully, as far as he is concerned answer, NO'. This is a warning that Stephen Donaldson, a Stop Prison Rape activist, once gave researchers of prison sex. Sexual practices among male prisoners show that sex acts in… Read More CSVROctober 25, 2002
PublicationsResearchCorrectional Services, Criminal JusticeSex, Sexual Violence and Coercion in Men's Prisons: A Literature ReviewThis paper seeks to explore the available evidence on the various ways in which sex and sexual violence happen between inmates and how these activities function within dominant prison sub-culture. While the intention is to focus on South African prisons, other cited literature ( mainly insights provided from other countries ) , is used in the belief that it is… Read More Sasha GearDecember 19, 2001
PublicationsResearchCorrectional Services, Criminal JusticePrison Conditions in AfricaThe subsequent article provides an in-depth examination of prisons in Kenya and Uganda, based on information available from Newspaper reports, and the few reports that are available in respect of each country. It explores subjects such as the exploitation of prisoner's labour for personal gain by prison authorities and torture and ill treatment amongst other issues. Read More Amanda DisselDecember 19, 2001
PublicationsResearchChildren and Youth, Correctional Services, Criminal Justice, Gender-based ViolenceNow We Have Nothing: Exploring the Impact of Maternal Imprisonment on Children Whose Mothers Killed an Abusive PartnerThis study looks to reveal that long-term imprisonment for a mother who has killed her abusive partner is not in her children's best interests. To substantiate this the report explains and demonstrates the complex and serious consequences for children who live in the context of domestic violence, whose fathers are killed by their mothers, and who subsequently lose their mothers… Read More Kailash Bhana and Tessa HochfeldDecember 3, 2001
