PublicationsResearchCorrectional Services, Criminal Justice, Transitional Justice, Truth and Reconciliation CommissionSeeking Reconciliation and Reintegration: Assessment of a Pilot Restorative Justice Mediation ProjectWith the aim of addressing the Post-Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) need for both participants and TRC officials to engage in personal and community dialogues in order to bring about real reconciliation, CSVR designed a pilot restorative justice programme to facilitate dialogue between ex-combatants, survivors and their communities. The project drew from restorative justice programmes developed for criminal cases, but… Read More Clara Ramírez Barat and Hugo van der MerweFebruary 1, 2005
PublicationsResearchCorrectional Services, Criminal Justice, GangsNongoloza's Children: Western Cape Prison Gangs During and After ApartheidThe subsequent monograph is an attempt at understanding the substance of South African prison life and the strange narratives and rituals of prison gangs. It is by no means a comprehensive history of prison gangs in the Western Cape. Rather, it is potted and thematic, its conclusions interpretive and discursive. It is hoped that other researchers might use its ideas… Read More Jonny SteinbergDecember 19, 2004
PolicyPublicationsResearchCorrectional Services, Criminal JusticeSubmission to the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Correctional Services on the Draft White Paper on Corrections in South AfricaThe following paper is a response to the Submission to the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Correctional Services Draft White Paper on Corrections in South Africa, December 2003. The paper provides specific comments on the concepts of rehabilitation, correction, development and restoration. Read More CSVRDecember 19, 2004
PublicationsResearchCriminal Justice, PolicingTowards Improving Collaboration Between the South African Police Service and the Metropolitan Police ServicesThis report contextualizes the objective of inter-agency collaboration through an overview of international literature. It highlights the increasingly recognized need for closer partnerships between law-enforcement agencies as a means to enhancing local level crime prevention initiatives. There is much that can be learned for South Africa as a result of these initiatives in other countries. In particular, this report considers… Read More Gareth Newham and Themba MasukuDecember 6, 2004
PublicationsResearchCriminal Justice, Policing, Truth and Reconciliation CommissionPolice Transformation and the South African TRCThe subsequent report looks to reflect on the relationship between South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (hereafter referred to as the TRC) and the country's national police agency, the South African Police Service (SAPS), in order to assess whether the TRC had any impact on the institutional transformation of the police service. Read More Janine RauchDecember 6, 2004
PublicationsResearchCorrectional Services, Criminal Justice, Truth and Reconciliation CommissionA Snake Gives Birth to a Snake: Politics and Crime in the Transition to Democracy in South AfricaIn and of itself, the brief account of the murder of an eight month-old baby along with the baby’s mother in the course of a massacre partially explained as political motivation during the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings, with 17 co-conspirators granted amnesty for their actions, gives ample substance to the moral and legal controversy that surrounded the TRC’s amnesty… Read More Graeme SimpsonDecember 1, 2004
