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    • 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 ...
    • Making sense of the numbers: Civil claims against the SAPS 

      Dereymaeker, Gwen (South African Crime Quarterly, 2015)
      In recent years reports have increasingly pointed to the mounting quantum of claims for civil damages faced by the South African Police Service (SAPS). A close analysis of the publicly available data shows that increasingly ...
    • Modest beginnings, high hopes: The Western Cape Police Ombudsman 

      Muntingh, Lukas (South African Crime Quarterly, 2018)
      In 2013 the Western Cape legislature passed the Western Cape Community Safety Act (WCCSA) to improve monitoring of and oversight over the police. One creation of the WCCSA is the Western Cape Police Ombudsman, which became ...
    • National Prosecuting Authority Performance 

      Africa Criminal Justice Reform (Dullah Omar Institute, 2018)
      The National Prosecuting Authority of South Africa (NPA) was created by legislation which came into effect in August 1998, and became a stand-alone entity in 2002/3, whereas previously it was more closely embedded in the ...
    • NICRO diversion options 

      Lukas, Muntingh (National Institute for Crime Prevention and the Rehabilitation of Offenders, 2000)
      Since 1994 South Africa has faced many challenges but none so widely experienced as crime. The day-to-day perceptions of living in South Africa are characterised by crime, violence and uncertainty. The criminal justice ...
    • NPA Accountability, trust and public interest 

      Africa Criminal Justice Reform, Lukas (Dullah Omar Institute, 2019)
      This discussion document deals with three key concepts associated with the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) and its relation to the public, namely accountability, public interest and trust. It is presented that for the ...
    • The numbering of days: Sentencing and prison population growth 

      Muntingh, Lukas; Giffard, Chris (Institute for Security Studies (ISS), 2007)
      On 30 May 2007 the Criminal Law Amendment Bill (15 of 2007) was tabled in Parliament, proposing amendments to what has become known as the 'minimum sentences' legislation. The proposed amendments herald another chapter in ...
    • Offender rehabilitation and reintegration: taking the White Paper on Corrections forward 

      Lukas, Muntingh (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 ...
    • Parallel Policies: Policies relevant to child safety 

      Redpath, Jean (Centre for Justice and Crime Prevention, 2007)
      The Centre for Justice and Crime Prevention’s 2005 National Youth Victimisation Study indicated the need to explore existing policy impacting on children from a social crime prevention perspective within a rights-based ...
    • Pocket Guide to Arrest and Detention in Malawi, Lilongwe 

      Redpath, Jean (Paralegal Advisory Services Institute (PASI), Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace (CCJP), Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR), the Centre for Human Rights Education, Advice and Assistance (CHREAA), and the Community Law Centre (CLC) of the University of the Western Cape, 2015)
      This guide is for anyone who needs a quick reference to the laws around arrest and detention in Malawi. This may include police, court clerks, prosecutors, magistrates, paralegals and detainees. First there is an orientation ...
    • 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 ...
    • The prevalence of HIV in South Africa's prison system: some, but not all the facts, at last 

      Lukas, Muntingh (Civil Society Prison Reform Initiative, 2008-05-26)
      The lack of reliable research data and more specifically, data on intervention impact evaluations, present a particular challenge in respect of evidence-based law and policy reform. In resource-constrained environments it ...
    • Preventing and combating torture in South Africa: a framework for action under CAT and OPCAT 

      Lukas, Muntingh (Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation & Civil Society Prison Reform Initiative, 2008)
      This booklet aims to provide more information to decision-makers and stakeholders on the challenges relating to preventing and combating torture; and also outlines South Africa’s obligations under CAT and OPCAT. These two ...
    • Prisoner re-entry in Cape Town - an exploratory study 

      Lukas, Muntingh (Civil Society Prison Reform Initiative, 2008)
      This study is concerned with the immediate post-release period and asked a very simple question: “What happens to people immediately after they have been released from prison?” The question is aimed at gaining a deeper and ...
    • Prisoners' access to anti-retroviral treatment 

      Lukas, Muntingh; Christopher, Mbazira (Civil Society Prison Reform Initiative, 2006)
      Prisoners are susceptible to a number of illness and diseases. This may relate to the conditions of prisons themselves (e.g. poor ventilation is associated with TB), life style (e.g. poor nutrition and substance abuse), ...