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Crime and violence have become key issues in South Africa. The SA Crime Quarterly provides concise analysis of developments in crime trends, and the state's response. The SA Crime Quarterly has replaced the Nedbank Crime Index.
This publication is funded by the Hanns Seidel Foundation.
South African Crime Quarterly
Editorial; Worrying trends: The official 2008/9 South African crime statistics; The war against the causes of crime: Advocacy for social crime prevention in the face of tougher law enforcement; The power of information: Implementing the right to information laws; Dancing with the devil? Participatory action research with police in South Africa; Race, class and violent crime in South Africa: Dispelling the ‘Huntley thesis’ On the record; Interview with Judge Deon van Zyl, Inspecting Judge, Judicial Inspectorate of Prisons
Editorial; Cops and robbers: a new approach, The Gauteng Aggravated Robbery Strategy; Can practice make perfect? Security and the 2010 FIFA World Cup; From stings to wings, Integrity management and the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigations; Why history has repeated itself, The security risks of structural xenophobia; Oiling the wheels of justice? The RAPCAN Child Witness Project; On the record, Interview with Vincent Smith, MP
Editorial; Dictating the local balance of power, Election-related violence in South Africa; Need or greed? Corruption and integrity management in a Gauteng police station; Calling for the punishment to fit the crime, Genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity in South Africa; One step forward, two steps back? The impact of the SAPS restructuring of the FCS units; Taking on Altbeker, A Country at War with Itself: The debate continues
Editorial; Taking the test, Proactive policing of integrity and professionalism in the MPDs; Prevention is better than cure, Promoting public service integrity; A call for comparative thinking, Crime, citizenship and security in the global South; Finding the right balance, Immediate safety versus long-term social change; The nature of the beast, A critical discussion of profiling
Editorial; Punishment and deterrence; Don’t expect prisons to reduce crime; The ‘shoot to kill’ approach; Inflammatory rhetoric no solution to crime; Learning to fear, fearing to learn; Measuring the extent of school violence; To measure and what to measure; Towards assessing the impact of social crime prevention projects; Ngwana phosa dira ga a bolawe; The value of restorative justice to the reintegration of offenders
Editorial; A long and winding road , The Child Justice Bill and civil society advocacy, Ann Skelton and Jacqui Gallinetti; Agents of restorative justice? Probation officers in the child justice system, Thulane Gxubane; The struggle continues; The fight against corruption in prisons, Lukas Muntingh; Giving substance to political will; The role of the SAPS in destroying firearms, Ben Coetzee and Noel Stott; Addressing psychologically motivated crimes;
The work of the SAPS Investigative Psychology Unit, Bilkis Omar
WHERE HAVE ALL THE DEMOCRATS GONE? The case for dissolving the Scorpions, Moe Shaik; WITHOUT FEAR OR FAVOUR The Scorpions and the politics of justice, David Bruce; PUTTING PAID TO THE UNTOUCHABLES? The effect of dissolving the Directorate of Special Operations and the Specialised Commercial Crime Units, Gail Wannenburg; THE SCORPIONS LOSE THEIR STING Challenges to incorporation of the DSO into the SAPS, Anthony Minnaar; A WATCHDOG WITHOUT TEETH? The Independent Complaints Directorate, Johan Burger & Cyril Adonis, INVESTIGATING THE INVESTIGATORS, A summary of the Khampepe Commission of Inquiry, Andrew Kanyegirire
MINDFUL PUNISHMENT What to do about the South African penal system, and why; RECLAIMING OUR HOMES Tackling residential robbery in Gauteng; WHY LAW ENFORCEMENT IS NOT ENOUGH Lessons on breaking the cycle of crime and violence; BRING THEM INTO LINE Managing corruption in SAPS and metro police departments; ARE WE TAKING PHYSICAL EVIDENCE SERIOUSLY? The SAPS Criminal Record and Forensic Science Service
HOW WE REALLY GOT IT WRONG Understanding the failure of crime prevention; COUNTERING THE ‘SCOURGE’ The time for evidence and reason on human trafficking; LOSING GROUND? Making sense of attrition in rape cases; NEW CRIMES AND OLD PROCEDURES Can the new Sexual Offences Bill deliver on its promises? IMPLEMENTING THE UNFEASIBLE Compulsory HIV testing for alleged sexual offenders WELL-INTENTIONED BUT MISGUIDED? Criminalising sex workers’ client
TIME TO TAKE ACTION The 2006/07 crime statistics, FINDING THE MEANINGS OF AIDS, ARV treatment in an Eastern Cape village, GOOD COPS? BAD COPS? Assessing the South African Police Service IN WHOSE INTEREST? Police unions and the 2006 restructuring of the SAPS, HOW WE GOT IT WRONG What to do about the failure of crime prevention
PARALYSED BY FEAR Perceptions of crime and violence in South Africa, JOINING FORCES AGAINST CRIME The role of the private security industry in crime prevention, CRIME DOES NOT CAUSE PUNISHMENT The impact of sentencing policy on levels of crime, THE NUMBERING OF DAYS Sentencing and prison population growth, POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE? Compulsory HIV testing of alleged sexual offenders
A GOLDEN GOAL FOR SOUTH AFRICA, Security arrangements for the 2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup, REACHING A VERDICT, The impact of minimum sentencing, POLICE AS WORKERS, Police labour rights in Southern Africa and beyond, PROVINCIAL POLICE STRATEGY UNDER REVIEW, Gauteng’s Operation Iron Fist after six months, TACKLING CRIME AT PROVINCIAL LEVEL, The Gauteng Safety Strategy: 2006–2014, Office of the Gauteng MEC for Community Safety
START OF A ‘CRIME WAVE’? The 2005/06 official crime statistics in context GOOD NEWS AND BAD Public perceptions of crime, corruption and government HOW DOES SA COMPARE? Experiences of crime and policing in an African context, THE CASE OF S V ZUMA Implications of allowing evidence of sexual history in rape trials, MORE CHANGES Impact of SAPS restructuring on public order policing
WELL WORTH THE WAIT? The Sexual Offences Bill in 2006, WHAT HAPPENED TO THE CHILD JUSTICE BILL? The process of law reform relating to child offenders, A MEASURE OF LAST RESORT? Child offenders and life imprisonment, CO-ORDINATED SERVICE DELIVERY, Local government’s efforts to make Cato Manor safer, WILL THE SCORPION STILL STING? The future of the Directorate of Special Operations, RACISM, SELF-ESTEEM AND VIOLENCE IN SA Gaps in the NCPS’ explanation?
EASY PREY Results of the national youth victimisation study, DOUBLE TROUBLE, Youth from violent families: easy victims of crime? ABUSE OF A DIFFERENT KIND, Adults using children to commit crime, CHEAP LIVES, Countering human trafficking: considerations and constraints, ENFORCING FEAR, Police abuse of sex workers when making arrests
GETTING INTO THE CITY BEAT Challenges facing our metro police, CROWD CONTROL Can our public order police still deliver? SEX WORKERS SPEAK OUT Policing and the sex industry, TARGETING FOREIGNERS Xenophobia among Johannesburg’s police, PETTY CRIMES THAT MATTER Evaluating the Western Cape community courts
POSITIVE TRENDS The 2004/05 crime statistics, YOUNG GUNS Children in organised armed violence, ASSESSING THE IMPACT Mandatory and minimum sentences in South Africa, AN UNKNOWN QUANTITY Kidnapping for ransom in South Africa THE DANGERS OF DATA Recognising the limitations of crime statistics
ASSESSING THE FUTURE OF RURAL POLICING The impact of closing the Commandos, AIDS, ORPHANS AND CRIME Exploring the linkages, PROTECTING OUR CHILDREN AND YOUTH How social service delivery can prevent crime, DANGER, THREATS OR JUST FEAR Witness intimidation in three Gauteng courts, VIOLENT DEATHS IN SA The 2003 National Injury Mortality Surveillance System
THE TIDE IS TURNING The 2003/04 SAPS crime statistics, MISSING PIECE IN THE PUZZLE The health sector’s role in implementing the DVA, POLICING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE The enthusiasm gap, PROVIDING A SENSE OF JUSTICE Informal mechanisms for dealing with domestic violence, GUNS UNDER FIRE Initial results of the 2005 firearms amnesty, GANG RAPE A study in inner-city Johannesburg
PUZZLING STATISTICS Is South Africa really the world’s crime capital? LINKING CRIME AND MORALITY Reviewing the Moral Regeneration Movement, HERE TO STAY Traditional leaders’ role in justice and crime prevention, PLANNING AGAINST CRIME Preventing crime with people not barriers, SECTOR POLICING THAT WORKS A case study of the West Rand, COSTING CRIME What value is there for policy-making?
CURB THE VENGEANCE Laws on minimum sentencing and parole spell worsening prison conditions, KEEPING THE POLICE IN CHECK Assessing the secretariats for safety and security,A VIOLENT LEGACY The taxi industry and government at loggerheads, MISSED OPPORTUNITIES Confiscation of weapons in domestic violence cases, OPERATION SETHUNYA Proactive policing can solve the illicit firearms problem
HIDDEN AGENDAS? The risks of human trafficking legislation, DO NEW CRIMES NEED NEW LAWS? Legal provisions available for prosecuting human trafficking, SMALL BRIBES, BIG CHALLENGE Extent and nature of petty corruption in South Africa, DO THE MEANS DEFEAT THE ENDS? Impact of legislation on Gauteng’s enclosed neighbourhoods, A WORLD OF CRIME Youth views on crime in the Nelson Mandela Metro, LIVING WITH CRIME Does crime affect victims’ perceived quality of life? NO ONE TO TRUST Preliminary results from a Manenberg crime survey
WHEN CAN I FIRE? Use of lethal force to defend property,NUMBERS THAT COUNT National monitoring of police conduct, WHY WAIT? By-laws and regulations for high impact crime prevention, FALLING CRIME, RISING FEAR 2003 National Victims of Crime Survey, TOUGH CHOICES Difficulties facing magistrates in applying Protection Orders, WEATHERING THE STORM Tough questions for the Scorpions
BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY Magistrates’ views on implementing the Domestic Violence Act, A MURDEROUS LEGACY Coloured homicide trends in South Africa, WHAT’S UP IN THE CAPE? Crime rates in Western and Northern Cape provinces,STILL MARGINAL Crime in the coloured community, A LITTLE GOES A LONG WAY Service delivery in Gauteng’s police stations,FIRST THINGS FIRST Rehabilitation starts with alternatives to prison
THE FACTS BEHIND THE FIGURES Crime statistics 2002/3, PLOUGHING IN RESOURCES The investigation of farm attacks, TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COIN? Sector policing and community policing forums,BARRICADED IN THE SUBURBS Private security via road closures,WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED? Social crime prevention in SA: A critical overview, DECLARED UNFIT TO OWN A FIREARM Are the courts playing a role? ON THE TUK-TUK EXPRESS Has methamphetamine hit the Cape Flats?
A BLEAK OUTLOOK HIV/AIDS and the South African Police Service, APARTHEID NOSTALGIA Personal security concerns in South African townships, THE SIEVE EFFECT South Africa’s conviction rates in perspective, WHO IS TO BLAME? Crime in Meadowlands, Soweto, MAKING THEIR MARK Perceptions and experience of policing in Meadowlands, FINDING LOCAL SOLUTIONS Crime prevention in the Nelson Mandela Metro
SAVE OUR COPS Preventing police killings, BAD COPS GET A BREAK The closure of the SAPS Anti-Corruption Unit, YOUR BROTHER, MY WIFE Sex and gender behind bars, SOUTH AFRICA’S HEART OF DARKNESS, Sex crimes and child offenders: some trends, GRIPES OR GRIEVANCES? What the Independent Complaints Directorate statistics tell us (or not), UNFIT TO OWN A FIREARM? The role of the police in firearm control
THE WHITE RIGHT A threat to South Africa’s internal security? DO UNTO OTHERS – AND PAY THE PRICE Combating sexual violence in the south of Johannesburg, FAILING OUR FUTURE Responding to the sexual abuse of children, FOR BETTER AND FOR WORSE? South African crime trends in 2002, SEARCH ME Public opinion on crime and justice in central Johannesburg, NPA IN THE DOCK Thumbs up for the prosecution service, THE PROS AND THE CONS Public-private partnerships in South African prisons
WHERE DID WE GO WRONG? A critical assessment of crime prevention, PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE Addressing violent crime in South Africa, STOPPING COP KILLING Lessons and limitations of South African research,A DEN OF INIQUITY? Inside Hillbrow’s residential hotels, PRISON HEALTH IS PUBLIC HEALTH HIV/AIDS and the case for prison reform, SHOWING ITS TEETH The Jali Commission on prison corruption,A MODEL FOR JUSTICE DELIVERY? The Specialised Commercial Crime Court
2001 Crime trends: A turning point? Improved crime reporting: Is South Africa’s crime wave a statistical illusion?/ How much might is right? Application of Section 49 of the Criminal Procedure Act / Emergency measures: Early releases to alleviate prison overcrowding / Getting a grip on guns: Rolling out the Firearms Control Act / Everyone’s an inspector: The crisis of rank inflation and the decline of visible policing
Nedbank / ISS Crime Index
