05 Oct 2007: ISS Seminar, Johannesburg: What Works? Is There Need to Rethink South Africa`s Crime Prevention Strategy?

Register Online: ISS Seminar: What Works? Is There Need to Rethink South Africa`s Crime Prevention Strategy?
Johannesburg, 5 October 2007

 

The 2006/7 police crime statistics released in July 2007 revealed a worrying increase in the incidence of violent crime, ending the downward trend experienced since 2002. Indeed, even in the four-year period (2002 – 2006) when violent crime seemed to be decreasing gradually, the scale of the problem was troubling. Should the SAPS and the Ministry of Safety and Security take the blame for high levels of crime? Does the failure to lower crime levels point to weaknesses in our understanding of the causes and remedies for crime? Do we need a new approach to combating crime? There are some of the issues that will be addressed by the speakers at a seminar hosted by the Crime and Justice Programme of the Institute for Security Studies. Join us for a lively discussion and debate on the future of crime and policing in South Africa.

 

Speakers:

Dr Johan Burger, Senior researcher at the Institute for Security Studies and former Commissioner in the SAPS
Time to take action? The 2006/7 crime statistics
Antony Altbecker, Independent consultant and author of “A Country At War with Itself: South Africa’s crisis of crime”.
Crime Prevention: The garlic, beetroot and olive oil of criminal justice policy?

 

The seminar will also launch the latest edition of ISS’s SA Crime Quarterly which features articles by the two speakers. Other topics in this issue are:

  • Finding the meaning of AIDS: ARV treatment in an Eastern Cape village

  • Assessing the South African Police Service

  • The role of police unions in the 2006 police restructuring process

 

Date: 5 October 2007
Time:10h30 – 12h30 followed by a light lunch
Venue: Seminar Room, Graduate School for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Ground Floor, South West Engineering Building, East Campus, University of the Witwatersrand.

RSVP: Ms Busiswa Nyume, email: [email protected], Tel: (012) 346 9500, Fax (012) 460 0998 

 

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


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