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- The Durban Safer City strategy is reprinted with the permission of the Durban Metropolitan council. It was first published as 2000 Durban Metro Safer City Durban.
- See L Camerer, A Louw, M Shaw, L Artz & W Scharf, Crime in Cape Town: Results of a city victim survey, ISS Monograph 23, Institute for Security Studies, Halfway House, April 1998; A Louw, M Shaw, L Camerer & R Robertshaw, Crime in Johannesburg: Results of a city victim survey, ISS Monograph 18, Institute for Security Studies, Halfway House, February 1998; A Louw, Crime in Pretoria: Results of a city victim survey, ISS and Idasa, Halfway House/ Pretoria, August 1998.
- The rural survey results appear in E Pelser, A Louw & S Ntuli, Poor safety: Crime and policing in South Africa’s rural areas, ISS Monograph 47, Institute for Security Studies, Pretoria, May 2000.
- The Safer Cities: Greater Johannesburg Crime Prevention Strategy was accepted and approved by the Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan Council on 20 April 1998.
- See U Zvekic & A Alvazzi del Frate (eds), Criminal victimisation in the developing world, UNICRI, Rome, 1995; C Mirrlees-Black, P Mayhew & A Percy, The 1996 British crime survey: England and Wales, Home Office Statistical Bulletin 19/96, Research and Statistics Directorate, London, 24 September 1996.
- A similar questionnaire to that used in the Durban survey can be found in Louw et al, op cit.
- See Camerer et al, op cit, p 15 for more details on this issue.
- Mirrlees-Black et al, op cit.
- Ibid.
- Ibid. See also Zvekic & Alvazzi del Frate, op cit; P Mayhew, Some methodological issues in victimisation surveys, in Crime victims surveys in Australia, conference proceedings, Criminal Justice Commission, Brisbane, 1995.
- Mirrlees-Black et al, op cit.
- Ibid; C Kershaw, TBudd, GKinshott, J Matlinson, P Mayhew & AMyhill, The 2000 British crime survey:England and Wales, Home Office Statistical Bulletin 18/00, London, 2000.
- See Louw et al, op cit; Camerer et al, op cit.
- See Nedbank ISS Crime Index 4(3), 2000 or the SAPS website <www.saps.org.za>.
- R Hirschowitz et al, Victims of crime survey, Statistics SA and the Department of Safety and Security, Pretoria, 1988. See also A Louw, Who suffer most? The national victims of crime survey, Crime and Conflict 16, Winter 1999.
- Assault was defined in very broad terms in the survey: respondents were asked whether they had been "attacked or threatened by someone in a way that really frightened [them] either at home or elsewhere, such as in a bar/shebeen, in the street, on public transport, at a shopping centre, or at [their] workplace." It is thus possible to distinguish between assaults in which the victim was attacked, and those in which only threats were used.
- This has been shown particularly in respect of violence against women, where survivors are more likely to regard abuse as a criminal act and to report it to the police if it is committed by strangers. This is probably as much the result of perceptions among the police about what constitutes a ‘serious’ crime as it is about the survivor’s views. See S Rasool, Violence against women survey, Nedbank ISS Crime Index 4(4), July-August 2000.
- A recent study of police service delivery showed that very few complainants surveyed in an exit poll outside police stations across the country, were provided with information by the police about where they could receive victim support or alterative forms of assistance. E Pelser and A Louw, Community policing and police service improvement study, project report for the SAPS, Institute for Security Studies, Pretoria, 1 February 2001.
- See Camerer et al, op cit.
- See references cited in note 2 above.
- See Louw, 1998, op cit.
- For more on the impact of crime on the poor, see M Shaw & A Louw, Stolen opportunities: The impact of crime on South Africa’s poor, ISS Monograph 14, Institute for Security Studies, Halfway House, July 1997.
- See R Robertshaw, A Louw & A Mtani, Crime in Dar es Salaam: Results of a city victim survey, Institute for Security Studies, Pretoria, May 2001.
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