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Carrots, sticks and apples - mechanisms to encourage the use of CPTED

Author: Kruger, Daniel M Date: Aug 2005 This 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
Crime and public transport: designing a safer journey

Author: Kruger, Daniel M ; Landman, K Date: Jul 2007 This 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
Designing safer living environments support for local government

Author: Landman, K ; Liebermann, S Date: Jun 1999 This 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
Identifying vehicle descriptions in microblogging text with the aim of reducing or predicting crime

Author: Featherstone, Coral Date: Nov 2013 Could 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
The internet of things in community safety and crime prevention for South Africa

Author: Dlodlo, N ; Mbecke, P ; Mofolo, M ; Mhlanga, Martin M Date: Dec 2013 One 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
Lets build a safe SA out of love, not from fear (Interview)

Author: Holtman, B Date: 18 Jan 2008 Barbara 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
Local Safety Toolkit: Enabling safe communities of opportunity

Author: Holtmann, B Date: 31 Aug 2010 Crime, 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
Participatory mapping for crime prevention in South Africa - local solutions to local problems

Author: Liebermann, S ; Coulson, J Date: Oct 2004 Community 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
Serious about safety

Author: Landman, K Date: Apr 1999 This 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
Some examples of tactical crime mapping in South Africa

Author: Cooper, Antony K ; Schmitz, P Date: Jan 2002 This 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
Technology and crime prevention: Integrating technologies to support community safety in Tshwane, South Africa

Author: Le Roux, G ; Erasmus, Louwrence D ; Pretorius, L Date: Aug 2019 With 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
Technology and crime prevention: Integrating technologies to support community safety in Tshwane, South Africa

Author: Le Roux, G ; Erasmus, Louwrence D ; Pretorius, L Date: Aug 2019 With 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
Why law enforcement is not enough: lessons from the Central Karoo on breaking the cycle of crime and violence.

Author: Holtmann, B Date: Mar 2008 A 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

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