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    • The death penalty in the Cape Provincial Division: 1986-1988 

      Julia, Sloth-Nielsen; Christina, Murray (South African Journal on Human Rights, 1989)
      This article presents the data that we collected in four tables. These are explained in the first section below. The second part of the article examines three issues that emerge from the data. First, we note the disparity ...
    • The Juvenile Justice Law Reform Process in South Africa: Can children's rights approach carry the day? 

      Julia, Sloth-Nielsen (Quarterly Law Review, 1999)
      The impetus for juvenile justice law reform sprang originally from concern for the plight of child detainees in the dark days of apartheid in the 1980s. Children, who were at the forefront of the struggle for democratic ...
    • Juvenile justice review 1994-1995 

      Julia, Sloth-Nielsen (South African Journal of Criminal Justice, 1995)
      This review of the state of juvenile justice in South Africa introduces a new section to this journal in which annual developments relating to law and policy in the field of juvenile justice will be examined. Juvenile ...
    • Juvenile justice review 1996 

      Julia, Sloth-Nielsen (South African Journal of Criminal Justice, 1996)
      This review follows the 1995 review, the first in this journal, and similarly reviews the period until 30 September 1996. In the year presently under review the principle focus of juvenile justice concern was yet again the ...
    • Juvenile justice review 1997 

      Julia, Sloth-Nielsen (South African Journal of Criminal Justice, 1998)
      The 1997 juvenile justice review charts developments in juvenile justice law in South Africa from November 1996 until October 1997. The most significant development during 1997 was the release of the issue paper on Juvenile ...
    • Juvenile justice review 1998 

      Julia, Sloth-Nielsen; Lukas, Muntingh (South African Journal of Criminal Justice, 1999)
      The 1998 Juvenile Justice Review charts developments in juvenile justice law and practice in South Africa from October 1997 until October 1998. However, the release of the South African Law Commission discussion paper on ...
    • Juvenile justice review 1999-2000 

      Lukas, Muntingh; Julia, Sloth-Nielsen (South African Journal of Criminal Justice, 2001)
      The two years covered in this review have seen major developments in the juvenile justice sphere. Not only have several important judicial decisions been handed down, but the process of law reform has advanced significantly ...
    • Policy and practice in South African prisons: an update 

      Julia, Sloth-Nielsen (Law, Democracy & Development, 2005)
      In June 2003, the Civil Society Prison Reform Initiative (CSPRI) released a policy review concerning major developments in penal policy in South Africa since the advent of constitutionalism in 1994. This paper was widely ...
    • 'A short history of time' charting the contribution of social development service delivery to enhance child justice 1996-2006 

      Julia, Sloth-Nielsen (Journal of Social Work, 2007)
      The starting point of this article has been selected as 1996 for several reasons. That year was characterised by three signal events in the history of child justice in South Africa. First, 1996 heralded the adoption of the ...
    • Unaccompanied and Separated Foreign Children in the Care System in the Western Cape – A Socio-Legal Study 

      Julia, Sloth-Nielsen; Marilize, Ackerman (Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, 2016)
      This article reports on the findings of a study of foreign children accommodated in the care system in the Western Cape, based on fieldwork conducted in child and youth care centres. The objectives of the study were firstly ...