This chapter focuses on the implications of a prison setting on prisoners' disclosure of their HIV positive status. The chapter provides several recommendations for prison staff and health care workers to ensure that HIV positive prisoners are supported and educated,…
This paper highlights and debunks several myths related to prison life, in particular sex and sexual violence in South African prisons.
In 2008, a study was undertaken by the Center for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) in conjunction with the LMPS to understand how HIV/AIDS is manifesting in the organization and to inform the organization how it needs to…
Tracking Justice: the Attrition of Rape Cases through the Criminal Justice System in Gauteng aimed to describe the characteristics of reported rape in Gauteng province, and to describe the processing of rape cases by the police and courts at selected…
The opening paragraph of your report on the latest crime statistics refers to business robberies, house robberies and car hijackings stating that these are the crimes that 'South Africans fear the most', a statement also reflected in the articles headline. …
In pursuit of establishing the measure of justice afforded rape complainants as well as insights into how and why justice may be eroded and the criminal justice system's consequent ability to deter sexual violence weakened, we undertook a study in…