ENDNOTES

Published in Crime in Pretoria
Results of a City Victim Survey

  1. See A Louw, The problem with police crime statistics, Nedcor/ISS Crime Index, 2(3), June 1998.

  2. The Safer Cities: Greater Johannesburg Crime Prevention Strategy was accepted and approved by the council on 20 April 1998.

  3. See L Camerer, A Louw, M Shaw, L Artz & W Scharf, Crime in Cape Town: Results of a City Victim Survey, ISS monograph series, 23, Institute for Security Studies, Halfway House, April 1988, pp. 15 for more details on this issue.

  4. 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.

  5. Ibid.

  6. Ibid. See also U Zvekic & A Alvazzi del Frate (eds.), Criminal Victimisation in the Developing World, Publication 55, UNICRI, Rome, 1995; P Mayhew, Some Methodological Issues in Victimisation Surveys, in Crime Victims Surveys in Australia, conference proceedings, Criminal Justice Commission, Brisbane, 1995.

  7. Mirrlees-Black, op. cit.

  8. Ibid., p. 11.

  9. See A Louw, M Shaw, L Camerer & R Robertshaw, Crime in Johannesburg: Results of a City Victim Survey, ISS monograph series, 18, Institute for Security Studies, Halfway House, February 1988; Camerer et. al., op. cit.

  10. Greater Pretoria Metropolitan Council Integrated Development Plan: Volume 1, February 1998.

  11. Louw et. al., op. cit.

  12. Mirrlees-Black, op. cit., p. 13.

  13. The Incidence of Serious Crime: Jan-Dec 1997, SAPS Crime Information Management Centre Quarterly Crime Report 1/98.

  14. Ibid., p. 23.

  15. Zawits et al, Highlights from Twenty Years of Surveying Crime Victims, US Department of Justice, Washington DC, 1993; J J van Dijk & P Mayhew, Criminal Victimisation in the Developing World: key findings of the 1989 and 1992 International Crime Survey, Directorate of Crime Prevention, Ministry of Justice, The Hague, 1993. Quoted in Mirrlees-Black, op. cit., p. 15.

  16. It is accepted that is not entirely accurate to compare country and city crime reporting rates. The UK reporting rates are used here simply to indicate comparative rates with a developed country.

  17. Mirrlees-Black, op. cit., p. 23.

  18. Zvekic & Alvazzi del Frate, op. cit., p. 43.

  19. J J M van Dijk, Criminal victimisation and victim empowerment in an international perspective: Key results on fifty nations of the International Crime Victims Surveys 1989-1996, keynote address at the Ninth International Symposium on Victimology, Amsterdam, August 1997, p. 12.

  20. Mirrlees-Black, op. cit., p. 23; Zvekic & Alvazzi del Frate, op. cit., p. 44.

  21. Van Dijk, op. cit., p. 10.

  22. Mirrlees-Black, op. cit., p. 25.

  23. Ibid., p. 26.

  24. Van Dijk, op. cit., p. 12.

  25. Mirrlees-Black, op. cit., p. 27.

  26. Low proportions were recorded in informal areas and the inner city because there are few informal settlements in Pretoria, and because only 7 per cent of the people interviewed actually lived in the inner city, despite the fact that the sample ensured that 17 per cent of the interviews were carried out in the inner city.

  27. Respondents who said that a member of their household was murdered were not asked the exact location.

  28. A Louw & M Shaw, Stolen Opportunities: The impact of crime on South Africa’s poor, ISS Monograph Series, 14, Institute for Security Studies, Halfway House, July 1997.

  29. S Oppler & A Louw, Declining Convictions: An Emerging Crisis, Nedcor/ISS Crime Index, Institute for Security Studies, Halfway House, October 1997.

  30. See workshop with Johannesburg SAPS station commissioners referred to in Louw et. al., op. cit.

  31. See the more detailed explanation for this methodological constraint on page ??.

  32. A Altbeker, Crime in Pretoria: a quantitative report, IDASA Community Safety Unit, Pretoria, April 1997.

  33. Mirrlees-Black, op. cit., p. 46.

  34. Zvekic & Alvazzi del Frate, op. cit., p. 25.

  35. Mirrlees-Black, op. cit., p. 55.

  36. Zvekic & Alvazzi del Frate, op. cit., p. 25.

  37. Mirrlees-Black, op. cit., p. 53.

  38. M Shaw, Crime in Durban, Results of a city victim survey, ISS Monograph Series, Institute for Security Studies, Halfway House (1998 forthcoming).

  39. Ibid.

  40. Camerer et. al., op. cit.

  41. Ibid., p. 54.

  42. Ibid., p. 49.