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
PublicationsResearchCrime Prevention, Criminal Justice, National Crime Prevention StrategyReflections on the First Year of the National Crime Prevention StrategyThis 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. Read More Graeme Simpson and Janine RauchFebruary 2, 1999
PolicyPublicationsResearchCrime Prevention, Violence in TransitionFrom Violent Policies to Policies for Violence Prevention: Violence, Power and Mental Health Policy in 20th Century South AfricaThis 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 policy formulation. Second, to outline the four major discursive regimes that have conditioned South African practices in relation to violence… Read More Alexander Butchart, Brandon Hamber, Martin Terre Blanche and Mohamed SeedatMarch 11, 1998
PublicationsResearchCrime Prevention, Criminal JusticeCrime and Crime Prevention in Greater Johannesburg: The Views of Police Station CommissionersThe 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 for this research was gathered by means of a structured interviews with Station Commissioners at each of the police stations… Read More Janine RauchMarch 1, 1998
PublicationsResearchCrime Prevention, Violence in IndustryViolence and Industrial RelationsIn 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. Read More Graeme SimpsonJanuary 3, 1994
PublicationsResearchCrime Prevention, Criminal Justice, PolicingReport of the Community Policing Working GroupThis paper attempts to clarify the concept of community policing and looks at its underlying principles and their significance for the South African context. Read More Etienne MaraisSeptember 4, 1992
