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
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
PublicationsResearchCriminal Justice, PolicingCommunity Policing and Accountability at Station LevelThis report provides a brief overview of some of the literature on police accountability in democracies. In particular it highlights the importance of accountability being concerned with both police performance (i.e. service delivery) and conduct (i.e. behavior and discipline). Moreover, it presents the argument that in democracies police accountability needs to be exercised by a variety of structures that exist… Read More Millicent MarogaDecember 1, 2005
PublicationsResearchCriminal Justice, PolicingStrengthening Democratic Policing in South Africa Through Internal Systems for Officer ControlThis article explores some of the dimensions of the challenge of widespread police corruption and ill-discipline which has hindered the legitimacy of the police organization in the eyes of a substantial proportion of the South African public. It challenges and argues that one of the contributory factors for this situation is the failure of the police reform initiative to establish… Read More Gareth NewhamDecember 1, 2005
PublicationsResearchCriminal Justice, PolicingThe Police That We Want: A Handbook For Oversight of Police in South AfricaThis handbook is intended as a resource for people involved in police oversight in South Africa, It may also be adapted for use in other contexts where reforms aim to bring policing in line with democratic principles. The overall purpose of the handbook is to stimulate reflection on key questions regarding police and policing, and to suggest the type of… Read More David Bruce and Rachel NeildDecember 1, 2005
ArticlesMediaCriminal Justice, Policing, Transitional JusticeWhen Spies Start to Take SidesThe suspension of three top National Intelligence Agency officials last week highlights the disturbing prospect of South African security agencies being drawn in to the conflict within the tripartite alliance about the prosecution of former deputy-president Jacob Zuma. Coming in the wake of the Khampepe Commission hearings, where both the NIA and South African Police Service were pitted against the… Read More CSVROctober 26, 2005
