PublicationsResearchCorrectional Services, Criminal JusticePrison Conditions in AfricaThe subsequent article provides an in-depth examination of prisons in Kenya and Uganda, based on information available from Newspaper reports, and the few reports that are available in respect of each country. It explores subjects such as the exploitation of prisoner's labour for personal gain by prison authorities and torture and ill treatment amongst other issues. Read More Amanda DisselDecember 19, 2001
PublicationsResearchChildren and Youth, Correctional Services, Criminal Justice, Gender-based ViolenceNow We Have Nothing: Exploring the Impact of Maternal Imprisonment on Children Whose Mothers Killed an Abusive PartnerThis study looks to reveal that long-term imprisonment for a mother who has killed her abusive partner is not in her children's best interests. To substantiate this the report explains and demonstrates the complex and serious consequences for children who live in the context of domestic violence, whose fathers are killed by their mothers, and who subsequently lose their mothers… Read More Kailash Bhana and Tessa HochfeldDecember 3, 2001
PublicationsResearchCriminal Justice, PolicingA Duty to Answer Questions? The Police, the Independent Complaints Directorate and the Right to Remain SilentThe following paper focuses on police accountability in the context of police powers. Mechanisms to compel police co-operation in internal investigations, and with the ICD in its investigations are considered within the context of the current Constitutional framework. Read More David Bruce, Kate Savage and Johan De WaalDecember 3, 2001
PublicationsResearchCriminal Justice, PolicingWitnesses in the Criminal Justice System: A Report on Focus Groups with Detectives and Prosecutors at Moroka Police Station and Protea Magistrates Court in SowetoProblems in the South African Criminal Justice System are well known and have been documented in countless reports. This report focuses on these same problems but differs in trying to understand how these problems impact on witnesses and their role in the criminal justice system. Read More Sibusiso Ntuli and David BruceDecember 3, 2001
PublicationsResearchCriminal Justice, Policing, Urban SafetyMunicipal Policing in South Africa: Development and ChallengesThe following document is a monograph that aims to clarify the functions of a municipal police service and the challenges they are likely to face in fulfilling these. The monograph is based on research carried out independently by the authors over a period of several years. It provides an up to-date picture of developments in Durban, Johannesburg, Pretoria and Cape… Read More Janine Rauch, Mark Shaw and Antoinette LouwNovember 1, 2001
PublicationsResearchCriminal Justice, PolicingIn the Line of Duty? Shooting Incidents Reports and Other Indicators of the Use and Abuse of Force by Members of the SAPSThis report was written in 1999 using information available at that time on the use of force by members of the SAPS. After problems were encountered with some of the data the report has now been revised with duplicates (roughly 2% of cases) removed from the data on shooting incidents. The major part of the report deals with shooting incident… Read More David Bruce and Gabriel O'MalleyOctober 1, 2001
