PublicationsResearchCrime PreventionTraditional Leaders in the eThekwini Metropolitan region: Their Role in Crime Prevention and Safety PromotionThis report discusses the role that the traditional leaders play in the prevention of crime and violence in the eThekwini metropolitan region. It is part of a project undertaken in three of the metropolitan regions that contain large rural areas, that is, Tshwane, eThekwini and Ekhuruleni. The emphasis for the research was on the functioning of the traditional courts, however,… Read More Ingrid PalmaryJanuary 5, 2004
PublicationsResearchCrime Prevention, Criminal JusticeThe 1996 National Crime Prevention StrategyAs a response to President Mandela's address at opening of Parliament in 17 Feb 1995, which raised concerns about crime, a National Crime Prevention Strategy was developed in early February 1995. This paper takes a look at that initiative from the point of view of implementation, financing and structuring. Read More Janine RauchJune 1, 2001
PublicationsResearchCrime Prevention, Reparations and Victim Services, Transitional JusticeLesson Drawing: Northern Ireland and South AfricaThis paper provides a cursory assessment of lesson drawing during the negotiated transitions in Northern Ireland and South Africa. In Northern Ireland the focus is on the Independent Review of Policing and Victim Policy. In South Africa, the focus is on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Committee on Reparation and Rehabilitation of Victims, as well as the National Crime Prevention… Read More Helen Brocklehurst, Noel Stott, Brandon Hamber and Gillian RobinsonMarch 1, 2001
PublicationsResearchCrime Prevention, Urban SafetySocial Crime Prevention in South Africa's Major CitiesThis report examines social crime prevention activities in South Africa's four major cities during 2000, and locates these activities within an analysis of the progress that has been made in terms of the social crime prevention approach suggested for cities in the 1998 White Paper on Safety and Security. Read More Ingrid PalmaryJune 5, 2000
PublicationsResearchCrime Prevention, Urban SafetyAn Analysis of Safety and Security in the Greater Pretoria Metropolitan AreaThis report is one of four reports making up the second phase of the CSVR's City Safety project. The baseline report gave an introduction to the location and function of city safety structures in South Africa's four major cities (Durban, Cape Town, Johannesburg and Pretoria). This report aims to delve more deeply into city safety issues in Pretoria with a… Read More Ingrid PalmaryJanuary 1, 2000
PublicationsResearchCrime Prevention, Criminal JusticeCrime Trends in South Africa, 1985-1998This document presents an analysis of crime trends in South Africa from 1985 to 1998. It is part of a review of the National Crime Prevention Strategy carried out for the Department of Safety and Security. Read More Martin Schönteich and Antoinette LouwJune 1, 1999
