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Justice versus Retribution:
Attitudes to Punishment in the Eastern Cape
Monograph No 45
February 2000
FIGURES
FIGURE 1: Victims of crime over a two-year period
FIGURE 2: Crime reporting and satisfaction with police’s response
FIGURE 3: Respondents who stated that crime had increased significantly since 1994
FIGURE 4: Perceptions of the general functioning of the criminal justice system
FIGURE 5: Respondents’ views on where the government should spend money in order to prevent crime
FIGURE 6: Respondents’ answers to the question whether the courts are independent of and impartial to outside influence
FIGURE 7: Support for alternative or traditional forms of punishment
FIGURE 8: Respondents’ perceptions of sentences handed down by the courts as too tough, about right, or too lenient
FIGURE 9: Whether lay assessors should assist magistrates in sentencing offenders
FIGURE 10: Support among respondents for the death penalty
FIGURE 11: Respondents choosing a more lenient sentence than provided for by law
FIGURE 12: Rights and privileges that should be afforded to convicted prisoners
FIGURE 13: Black, coloured and white respondents’ views on the effect of imprisonment
FIGURE 14: Respondents’ views on the role of prison
TABLES
TABLE 1: Respondents’ evaluation of the job performance of the professions working in the criminal justice system
TABLE 2: Urban, small town and rural respondents’ evaluation of the job performance of selected professions working in the criminal justice system
TABLE 3: What respondents thought the government should do to reduce vigilante activity
TABLE 4: Importance placed by urban, small town and rural respondents on the rights of accused persons
TABLE 5: Female and male perceptions of crime levels and the state’s response
TABLE 6: Proportion of female and male respondents who thought the crime fighting professions were doing a good job
TABLE 7: Proportion of female and male respondents who thought it important that certain rights are afforded to offenders
TABLE 8: Attitudes to punishment of female and male respondents
- Totals of percentages used in the figures and tables may not always add up to 100% due to rounding, and the fact that for some questions some respondents answered ‘don’t know’.
This monograph is sponsored by the Human Rights and Criminal Justice Studies (Technikon SA), Open Society Foundation - SA and theEuropean Union
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