PublicationsResearchCorrectional Services, Criminal Justice, Youth ViolenceChildren Serving Gaol Sentences: A Profile on Children Sentenced to PrisonThis paper aims to address the question of whether sentences of imprisonment are being used only in the last resort, and then only in cases where no other suitable remedy exists , and it tries to do so by looking at who are the children who are sentenced to imprisonment. This paper is based on a study conducted by the… Read More Amanda DisselFebruary 3, 1999
PublicationsResearchChildren and Youth, Correctional Services, Criminal Justice, Youth ViolenceInto the Heart of Darkness: Journeys of the Amagents in Crime, Violence and DeathThis paper is a journey into their criminal underworld – South Africa's heart of darkness. It is a unsettling journey but one that is vital if we are to reach beyond the public disquietude surrounding these cold-blooded youngsters and begin to understand the human contours of their moral exile and pariah status. The journey starts with their own, autobiographical accounts of how they were drawn into this world of deviance; the different paths they have traversed; the events that have taken place along the way and the dialogue that they have about their goals and dreams in the future. Read More CSVRFebruary 3, 1998
PublicationsResearchChildren and Youth, Youth ViolenceRestoring the Social FabricThis is a shortened version of a paper given by Wandile Zwane at a workshop held in Washington, DC, on CSVR's work in schools. The CSVR's Children and Violence Intervention Programme (CVIP) began in 1994 as a pilot project in four schools in Soweto. In addition, a teacher training programme called the "40 Schools Project," which services both primary and high schools, was initiated in 1996. The primary aim of the project was to reach children and to provide a service that would help to decrease the negative impact of violence. Since its inception, it has grown to include caregivers such as teachers, parents and extended family members. Read More Wandile ZwaneDecember 1, 1997
PublicationsResearchChildren and Youth, Correctional Services, Ex-combatant Reintegration and Demilitarisation, Youth ViolenceAlternative Policing Structures? A Look at Youth Defense Structures in Gauteng in 1995This paper draws on primary research to analyse youth self defence structures in Gauteng. The paper considers the aspirations and needs of youth involved in these defence structures, and considers the ways that the state could address these aspirations and needs. Read More Monique MarksJuly 1, 1995
PublicationsResearchStudy on the Violent Nature of Crime, Youth ViolenceThe Resurgence of Pupil Power: Explaining Violence in African SchoolsThis paper seeks to analyse some of the dynamics which shape the character and intensity of violent behaviour in black schools, particularly in the years after February 1990. In order to examine this violence, this paper will attempt to revisit and re-examine the crisis in the township schools of the Pretoria-Witwatersrand-Vaal Triangle. Read More Reuben MoganoMarch 24, 1993
PublicationsResearchTrauma and Transition, Violence in Transition, Youth ViolencePsychological Effects of Criminal and Political Violence on ChildrenThis paper looks at the effects of political and criminal violence on township children. It focuses on children as victims rather than perpetrators of violence, although the latter can also be said to be victims of violence. Read More Vivi StavrouFebruary 3, 1993
