Library Portal | UWC Portal | National ETDs | Global ETDs
    • Login
    Contact Us | About Us | FAQs | Login
    View Item 
    •   DSpace Home
    • Faculty of Law
    • Book and Book Chapters (Faculty of Law)
    • View Item
    •   DSpace Home
    • Faculty of Law
    • Book and Book Chapters (Faculty of Law)
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    South Africa

    Thumbnail
    View/Open
    steytler_south_africa_2019.pdf (3.640Mb)
    Date
    2019
    Author
    Steytler, Nico
    Steytler, Nicolaas
    Muntingh, Lukas
    Metadata
    Show full item record
    Abstract
    South Africa is facing a major public safety crisis threatening its constitutional democracy. Personal violent crime (murder, rape and robbery) remains among the highest in the world; conuption in the public service is rife; public protests about poor service delivery are frequent (Powell, O'Donovan, and De Visser 2015), widespread, and often tum violent; xenophobic attacks occur frequently (South African History Online 2015); and industrial strike action has also resulted in violence. Devastating natural disasters have, fortunately, been infrequent. The state institutions concerned with public safety and corruption are located mainly at the national level, but perform poorly to meet these diverse challenges. Moreover, the national government's response to crime has focused almost exclusively on law enforcement, neglecting primary, secondary and tertiary crime prevention of a socio-economic nature. The South African Police Service (SAPS), despite its size (nearly 194,000) (SAPS 2015, 309), has been demoralized by corruption from the top to the bottom, it has been politicized, and its public order policing is ill-equipped and inadequately trained to deal with frequent public disturbances. The National Prosecuting Autholity (NPA), too, has been politicized, and its success rate is declining (Redpath 2012). The national court system has run up huge backlogs in trying cases and the national Department of Correctional Services does little more than warehousing a large and growing prison population of some 42,000 people awaiting trial. Sentenced prisoners seldom receive the necessary services to reduce the risk of re-offending after release.
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10566/5243
    Collections
    • Book and Book Chapters (Faculty of Law)

    DSpace 6.3 | Ubuntu | Copyright © University of the Western Cape
    Contact Us | Send Feedback
    Theme by 
    Atmire NV
     

     

    Browse

    All of DSpaceCommunities & CollectionsBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsThis CollectionBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjects

    My Account

    Login

    Statistics

    View Usage Statistics

    DSpace 6.3 | Ubuntu | Copyright © University of the Western Cape
    Contact Us | Send Feedback
    Theme by 
    Atmire NV