South Africa: Crime in transition

Terrorism and Political Violence

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 156-175

  Shaw, Mark ^a  

^a Institute for Defence Policy   (South Africa)

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EID: 5744252760     PISSN: 09546553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09546559608427376     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Quoted in the Business Day, Johannesburg, 4 Aug. 1994.
2. For a more detailed argument on the relationship between crime and political transition, see M. Shaw, Partners in Crime? Crime, Political Transition and Changing Forms of Policing Control (Johannesburg: Centre for Policy Studies 1995).
3. See M. Shaw and L. Camerer, Policing the Transformation? New issues in South Africa's crime debate (Johannesburg: Inst. for Defence Policy 1996).
4. Unpublished crime statistics, Jan.-June 1996, Crime Information Management Centre. South African Police Service, Pretoria.
5. See M. Shaw, 'The Development of Organised Crime in South Africa', in Shaw and Camerer (note 3).
6. Lorraine Glanz, 'Crime in Gauteng', unpub. paper. Human Science Research Council 1995.
7. For an overview of problems across the criminal justice system, see Re-engineering the Criminal Justice System, a joint project of the Ministries of Safety and Security, Justice, Welfare and Correctional Services and Business Against Crime, June 1996.
8. The actual figure is in fact probably lower than this. See Lorraine Glanz, 'The Not so Long Arm of the Law', Indicator SA: Crime and Conflict, No.5, Autumn 1996.
9. See Molefi Thinane, 'End of the Line: South Africa's Overcrowded Prisons', Indicator SA: Crime and Conflict, No.7, Spring 1996.
10. National Crime Prevention Strategy, Dept. of Correctional Services, Defence, Intelligence, Justice, Safety and Security and Welfare, Pretoria, May 1996.
11. For more detailed overview of the industry, see M Shaw, 'Privatising Crime Control? South Africa's private security industry', in Partners in Crime? (note 2) pp.83-7.
12. Re-engineering the Criminal Justice System (note 7). The figures for the other provinces where statistics are available are similar.
13. M Shaw, 'Buying time? Vigilante Action, Crime Control and State Responses', Indicator SA: Crime and Conflict, No.7, Spring 1996.
14. D. Ehlers, I. Hirshfeld and C. Schutte, Perceptions of Current Sociopolitical Issues in South Africa (Centre for Sociopolitical Analysis, Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria, June 1996). This confirms previous survey data. A confidential government poll also drew similar conclusions.
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid.