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 next three briefs set out the analysis. This brief offers some concluding remarks.
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 brief is the third of three setting out the analysis. The fifth brief offers some concluding remarks.
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 brief is the second of three setting out the analysis. The fifth brief offers some concluding remarks.
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 brief is the first of three setting out the analysis. The fifth brief offers some concluding remarks.
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 second, third and fourth briefs. The fifth brief offers some concluding remarks.
Lives and Livelihoods
In this brief, Matthew Kruger writes about the detrimental impact, on freedom and politics, of any law or policy that overemphasises risk and safety.
COVID-19: Opportunities and challenges for the water, sanitation and hygiene sector
Disasters are undesirable events; but, if managed well, they can be catalysts for beneficial systematic change. The necessity for efficacy in COVID-19 pandemic has helped give renewed priority to the need for providing WASH services to acutely vulnerable communities. While some communities have benefited from these interventions for others it remains a distant dream.
Why so violent?
In a time before the pandemic, South Africa could easily have been classed among the most violent societies. As a nation in lockdown, we are now informed that our rate of violent crime has decreased by up to 87% in some categories during the month of April. Conversely, the abuse of power by police officials has increased by 32% during the same month, according to IPID. We are all too aware that the conditions that have provided for this drastic drop in violent crime are temporary. So the question to be asked remains: why are we so violent?