ISS Seminar, Pretoria, 06 July 2006

Date: 2006-07-06 to Invalid date

ISS Seminar, Pretoria, 06 July 2006
Abuse of a Different Kind: Adults Using Children to Commit Crime

A recent study commissioned by the Community Law Centre at the University of the Western Cape has found that the phenomenon of children being used by adults to commit crime is common. In total, 541 children were consulted about the problem. The findings revealed that adults engage children directly as accomplices, and indirectly, through buying stolen goods, showing children how to commit crime, and providing the means to do so (such as guns). Although children were often threatened and coerced into committing crimes, many said they engaged in crime due to the rewards offered by adults which included drugs, money, clothes and weapons.

Speakers:

Jacqui Gallinetti, co-ordinator of the Children’s Rights Project at the Community Law Centre, will provide an overview of the pilot project, which is part of a broader initiative by the Department of Labour and the International Labour Organisation to reduce children’s involvement in the worst forms of child labour in South Africa.

Cheryl Frank, senior researcher at the ISS, will discuss the findings of the child consultation study.

The seminar will also launch the latest issue of the ISS’s SA Crime Quarterly, in which the results of the above research are published. Other topics in this issue are:

• Results of the national youth victimisation study

• Youth from violent families: easy victims of crime?

• Countering human trafficking: considerations and constraints

• Police abuse of sex workers when making arrests
  

Date: Thursday 6 July 2006
Time: 11h30 – 13h30 (followed by a light lunch)
Venue: ISS, Block C, Brooklyn Court, Veale Street East, Pretoria
RSVP: Busi Nyume, [email protected] ph (012) 346 9500, f (012) 460 0998

Parking is available at the Brooklyn Mall and ABSA Parkades at your own cost.

This seminar is made possible by funding from the Hanns Seidel Foundation.