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The Juvenile Justice Law Reform Process in South Africa: Can children's rights approach carry the day?
(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 ...
Corruption in the prison context
(Civil Society Prison Reform Initiative, 2006)
The point of departure of this paper is that, in general, corruption is a human rights issue, which is accentuated in the prison context given the nature of imprisonment. Three factors create an intrinsic risk for corruption ...
Prisoners' rights litigation in South Africa since 1994: a critical evaluation
(Law, Democracy & Development, 2005)
It is a sad fact that there is often a huge gap in South Africa between the constitutional promise of a life lived with dignity and respect, on the one hand, and the actual lived reality of people who are supposed to be ...
Surveying the prisons landscape - what the numbers tell us
(Law, Democracy & Development, 2005)
This article will make observations and describe trends using available prison statistics in order to offer a quantitative perspective on the issues of democracy and human rights in South African prisons. In chis sense, ...
Race, gender and socio-economic status in law enforcement in South Africa – are there worrying signs?
(Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape, 2013)
In the South African context the right to equality has particular significance given the country’s history of statutory unfair racial discrimination. This paper investigates, based on quantitative data, how different ...
Offender rehabilitation and reintegration: taking the White Paper on Corrections forward
(Civil Society Prison Reform Initiative, 2005)
Rehabilitation and reintegration, as contemplated on the scale articulated in the White Paper, will indeed require a very careful approach and consideration would have to be given to the major challenges, such as resource ...
Prisons in South Africa's constitutional democracy
(Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, 2007-10)
In this article it will be argued that to make prisons compatible with a constitutional democracy, as understood in South Africa, four requirements need to be met. First, the prison system must have an underlying philosophical ...
Challenges to effective prison governance in South Africa
(Law, Democracy & Development, 2006)
In an attempt to broaden the debate on prison reform in South Africa, this article reports on the findings of the investigation into the status of governance in selected prisons around the country. The study. which set out ...
The state of civil society participation in Parliament
(Law, Democracy & Development, 2012)
This paper explores the extent of public participation in the legislative, oversight and accountability mandates of Parliament. The legislative mandate refers to the making, introducing and amending of laws. The Constitution ...
Ten years after the Jali Commission: assessing the state of South Africa's prisons
(South African Crime Quaterly, 2016-12)
Ten years have lapsed since the Jali Commission’s final report became publicly available, and it is therefore an opportune time to assess the state of South Africa’s prison system. The Jali Commission was appointed when ...