Author:Kruger, Daniel MDate:Aug 2005This paper discusses various mechanisms that could assist in the promotion of CPTED as an essential and useful crime prevention approach and support its effective implementation at the macro as well as micro level. Mechanisms that could be ...Read more
Author:Kruger, Daniel M; Landman, KDate:Jul 2007This paper addresses issues related to transport and security with a particular focus on the role that the physical environment plays in increasing or reducing opportunities for crime. The focus is on crime problems on public transport and ...Read more
Author:Landman, K; Liebermann, SDate:Jun 1999This paper addresses the built environment, the opportunities it presents for crime and the role city planners and urban designers have to play in the design of safer cities and towns. City planners and urban designers can play a role in the ...Read more
Author:Featherstone, CoralDate:Nov 2013Could social media, and in particular, microblogs such as Twitter, play a part in helping to track criminal movement? The aim of this paper is to narrow the focus of this broader problem of using social media to crowdsource information to ...Read more
Author:Dlodlo, N; Mbecke, P; Mofolo, M; Mhlanga, Martin MDate:Dec 2013One of the major tasks of the South African government is to reduce crime levels on a year-to-year basis. The use of information and communications technologies (ICTs) is capital in facilitating the process to finding solutions to crime. This ...Read more
Author:Holtman, BDate:18 Jan 2008Barbara Holtman is leader of the CSIR Crime prevention research group. This is a group that is responsible for support of criminal justice systems, a group working with government safety strategies and crime prevention programmes at the CSIR. ...Read more
Author:Holtmann, BDate:31 Aug 2010Crime, violence and the related state of unsafety are issues of deep concern for most South Africans. Criminal justice responses, despite heavy investment and efforts by the state to increase and improve capacity to ensure effective law ...Read more
Author:Liebermann, S; Coulson, JDate:Oct 2004Community policing remains more a talked-about concept than a practice actually taking place in South Africa today. In spite of much legislation pointing to the need for people's participation, there is limited understanding of how this should ...Read more
Author:Landman, KDate:Apr 1999This paper addresses the built environment, the opportunities it presents for crime and the role city planners and urban designers have to play in the design of safer cities and towns. City planners and urban designers can play a role in the ...Read more
Author:Cooper, Antony K; Schmitz, PDate:Jan 2002This paper presents a few examples of tactical crime mapping and analysis done by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and the South African Police Service (SAPS). In these cases, the police had already arrested the ...Read more
Author:Le Roux, G; Erasmus, Louwrence D; Pretorius, LDate:Aug 2019With over 2,1 million crimes reported in South Africa annually, the country ranks amongst the highest in the world with regards to the number of crimes reported per annum. The negative economic impact of crime, trauma, reduced quality of live ...Read more
Author:Le Roux, G; Erasmus, Louwrence D; Pretorius, LDate:Aug 2019With over 2,1 million crimes reported in South Africa annually, the country ranks amongst the highest in the world with regards to the number of crimes reported per annum. The negative economic impact of crime, trauma, reduced quality of live ...Read more
Author:Holtmann, BDate:Mar 2008A 2003 initiative to develop a crime prevention strategy for the Central Karoo District Municipality helped formulate the ‘life cycle’ that perpetuates crime and violence, which is discussed in this article. Children’s developmental needs are ...Read more