Browsing PhD / Doctoral by Department "Institute of Criminology"

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Compensation for victims of sexual violence in South Africa : a human rights approach to remedial criminal compensation provisions

Author: Greenbaum, B Date: 2013 The author questioned why state attorneys, prosecutors and magistrates/judges in South Africa rarely review the compensation concerns of sexual violence complainants and witnesses in criminal sentencing matters, and in quasi-criminal civil ... Read more
Contested governance: police and gang interactions

Author: Kinnes, Irvin Date: 2017 Gangs in Cape Town have long been associated with high levels of violence and police efforts on the Cape Flats, while state agencies have not yet been able to bring any significant relief to the affected communities or growing gang structures. ... Read more
Crime and imprisonment in South Africa with particular reference to prison labour

Author: Corry, Terence Macalaster Date: 1975 In this thesis, which records research into prisoner employment practices in various countries and makes certain recommendations for the development of correctional treatment in South Africa, the author has started from the premise that, ... Read more
Parole in South Africa : is it a right or a privilege? : the theory and practice of parole in South African Correctional centres with specific focus on the nature of parole under the Correctional Service Act 8 of 1959 (repealed) and the current Correctional Service Act 111 of 1998

Author: Moses, Jacobus Johannes Date: 2009 The principal focus of this research centres around the question whether parole, as it is understood and practised in South Africa, is a right or a privilege. The essential question of this thesis is whether a prisoner acquires an enforceable ... Read more
The politics of leadership organizing in informal settlements: ambiguities of speaking publicly and mediating conflicting institutional logics

Author: Drivdal, Laura Elisabet Date: 2014 This thesis examines the politics of leadership organizing in three informal settlements in Cape Town. Building on the facts that internal informal settlement politics is tense and leadership organizing fragmented and fluid, I focus on the ... Read more
Restorative justice : a Marxist analysis

Author: Koen, Raymond Anthony Date: 2005 Includes bibliographical references (leaves 468-504). Read more
Sentencing reforms in a postcolonial society: a call for the rationalisation of sentencing discretion in Nigeria, drawing on South Africa and England

Author: Badejogbin, Oluwatoyin Akinwande Date: 2015 This thesis investigates measures to ensure that sentencers introduce proportionality to sentencing and refrain from imposing penalties that infringe constitutional rights. The investigation involves two stages of analysis. First, the thesis ... Read more
South African Police reform in the 1990s : internal processes and external influences

Author: Van der Spuy, Elrena Date: 2005 In the contemporary era policy-making is increasingly being shaped by non-domestic influences and actors. The mobility of policy ideas and mechanisms across time and space provides a challenge: How best to conceptualise the routes and modes ... Read more
The administration of criminal justice at the Cape of Good Hope 1795-1882. Volume One and Two

Author: Fine, Hilton Basil Date: 1991 The purpose of this thesis is to examine the administration of criminal justice at the Cape of Good Hope during the crucial period 1795 - 1828 in order to provide an insight into the roots of our present system and to shed some light on the ... Read more