Problems 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…
The 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…
This 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…
This paper presents a policy and budget analysis of the criminal justice sector – police, courts, prisons and some aspects of the welfare system – in South Africa. It outlines the priorities of the criminal justice agencies in South Africa…
The subsequent report provides a brief update on the state of municipal policing in South Africa as at June 2001.
The report examines the operation of the criminal justice system, specifically the process of crime investigation and prosecution, in relation to the violence (and other acts of criminality) which have occurred at the Amplats mines in the North West and…