6 articles in this issue
Lillian Artz
As part of an ongoing project to monitor the implementation of the Domestic Violence Act, this article focuses on the role of magistrates. The impression exists that magistrates have a tendency to judge domestic violence matters conservatively. But resear... see more
Ted Leggett
According to the official crime statistics, the Western Cape has emerged as the country’s most crime-ridden province, and the Northern Cape as the most violent. This is confusing for criminologists who link crime to poverty, because these are two of the b... see more
Is the crime problem in the Western Cape and the Northern Cape rooted in the coloured population? Official figures suggest that coloured people are twice as likely as any other ethnic group to be murdered, and twice as likely to be incarcerated. Unfortuna... see more
Yvonne Pennington
As part of Business Against Crime’s Support Partnership for Police Station programme, service delivery in 33 of Gauteng’s 121 police stations was evaluated in late 2003. The results highlight many often overlooked issues which can be simply rectified to p... see more
Makubetse Sekhonyane
In its recent white paper, the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) takes on the big challenge of rehabilitating offenders. This represents a paradigm shift that will require a concerted effort, not only from DCS, but other departments, families of o... see more
JDS Thomson
South Africa has one of the highest murder rates of all the countries that record crime statistics. Understanding such high levels of violence should begin with an investigation of who the victims and perpetrators are, and how the homicides are committed ... see more