Crime And Punishment In Contemporary South Africa III - From Crime Reporting To Cases Finalised

This is the third brief in a series of five. The first brief set the scene for an analysis of quantitative information of the criminal justice process. This ...

Crime And Punishment In Contemporary South Africa II - From Crime To Crime Reporting

This is the second brief in a series of five. The first brief set the scene for an analysis of quantitative information of the criminal justice process. This ...

Crime And Punishment In Contemporary South Africa I - The System And The Data

This is the first brief in a series of five. It sets the scene for an analysis of quantitative information of the criminal justice process, presented in the ...

Crime And Punishment In Contemporary South Africa V - Concluding Remarks

This is the fifth brief in a series of five. The first brief set the scene for an analysis of quantitative information of the criminal justice process. The ...

Crime And Punishment In Contemporary South Africa IV - Estimating The Performance Of The System

This is the fourth brief in a series of five. The first brief set the scene for an analysis of quantitative information of the criminal justice process. This ...

Decision Making In A Time Of Uncertainty

The brief considers the present state of uncertainty and how decision making is to be viewed and implemented. Charles Simkins introduces risk and uncertainty ...

Deepening Democracy Brief: Parliamentary Accountability

This brief discusses Parliament’s oversight duty (over, among others, organs of state) and Parliament’s accountability mechanism – the electorate. It briefly ...

Deepening Democracy: Petitions - What are they and how do they work?

The Sixth Parliament officially sits on 22 May 2019, and sets in motion renewed opportunities to engage our public representatives and hold them accountable to ...

Democracy And Popular Political Norms In South Africa I - To What Degree Do Popular Political Perceptions Correlate With Basic Constitutional Norms?

This brief is the first in a series of two. It considers survey evidence of popular South African political perceptions, analysing the degree to which they ...

Democracy And Popular Political Norms In South Africa II - How Coherent Are Popular Political Norms?

The first brief in this series considered the extent to which popular political norms coincide with constitutional norms. This brief will discuss the ...