AUTHORS

Patrick Burton was, at the time of writing, a research associate at the ISS. He works as an independent research consultant in the development sector, specialising in the criminal justice arena. Prior to becoming a consultant, Patrick was senior partner at Development Research Africa, and was responsible for establishing the Johannesburg office of the company. Patrick has a Master of Science degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Natal.

Anton du Plessis is the head of the Crime and Justice Programme at the ISS. He is an advocate of the High Court of South Africa, and has been working in the criminal justice arena for the past seven years. He has worked as a public prosecutor and an advocate. Prior to joining the ISS in July 2003, he was a senior state advocate in the National Prosecuting Authority of South Africa, where he was head of the sexual offences section in the sexual offences and community affairs unit. He holds a B-Iuris and LL.B degree, as well as an LL.M in criminal law from the University of South Africa.

Ted Leggett works as a senior researcher at the ISS Crime and Justice Programme. His professional background includes police work, prosecution, and social work. He holds the degrees of Juris Doctor from New York University School of Law and Master of Social Science in Development Studies from the University of Natal, Durban.

Antoinette Louw is an ISS research fellow, working part time as a researcher and editor with the Crime and Justice Programme. She has been with the ISS since late 1997, first as a senior researcher and then as head of the Crime and Justice Programme. Antoinette has been researching crime, violence and criminal justice in South Africa since 1991. Her work in the policy field has covered victimisation surveys, crime prevention policy and practice, policing, violence against women and a range of service delivery surveys in the sector. She has a Masters degree in political studies from the University of Natal, Durban.

Duxita Mistry joined the ISS as a senior researcher in the Crime and Justice Programme in July 2003. Her research career began at the HSRC whereafter she worked at the CSVR. In 1998 she was employed as a senior researcher by the Institute for Human Rights and Criminal Justice Studies at Technikon SA. She obtained a Bachelor of Arts (Political Studies Africa) from the University of Cape Town in 1986 and a Master of Arts in Socio-Legal Studies from Brunel, The University of West London (1991). Her research has covered the criminal justice system including issues such as restorative justice, minimum sentencing, farm attacks, firearms and the use of force by police.

Hennie Van Vuuren joined the ISS Cape Town office in February 2002 as a senior researcher with a focus on anti-corruption strategies. Before joining the ISS Hennie was based in Berlin, Germany for three years where he was a Programme Officer at the Transparency International (TI) secretariat. During this time he read for an MA in Political Studies at the Free University ( Berlin ). He also holds a BA Honours degree in African Politics from the University of Witwatersrand and held a number of leadership positions in student government.