This 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.
This paper is a reflection on the first year of the National Crime Prevention Strategy. It evaluates the aims of the NCPS, principles underlying it, and key issues on its implementation, amongst many other topics on the initiative.
This chapter has three aims. First, to place violence in South Africa and social responses to it within the interpretive framework of Foucault's theory concerning power and socio-medical knowledge, and to identify the implications that this structuralist approach has for…
The CSVR has been providing assistance to the officials of the Greater Johannesburg Metro Council responsible for developing a crime prevention strategy. This paper is intended to contribute to the development of the Safer Cities strategy for Greater Johannesburg. Data…
In the past five or six years, employers, trade unionists, researchers and our criminal and industrial courts have confronted the growing magnitude and brutality of violence in industrial conflict. This article puts focus on the potential of violence in industrial relations and the experiences of trauma resulting from high levels of community violence, which are fundamentally inseparable.
This paper attempts to clarify the concept of community policing and looks at its underlying principles and their significance for the South African context.