Reducing prison violence: implications from the literature for South Africa

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dc.contributor.authorLukas, Muntingh
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-05T13:49:54Z
dc.date.available2019-12-05T13:49:54Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.description.abstractIn the past 15 years the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) has faced numerous challenges whilst trying to re‐invent itself. This has not been an easy road and in many regards the route to penetrative transformation has been beleaguered with distractions; many of them the Department’s own making. Amongst all the strategic objectives towards transformation and the distractions, the most important objective of any correctional system may have lost focus, namely to detain prisoners under safe and humane conditions. This, very explicitly, means that individuals, when imprisoned, must not only be safe but they must also feel safe. Regrettably this is not the case and thus the need for this paper to take a closer look at violence in South Africa’s prison system. This is done by reviewing the literature on prison violence to gain a deeper understanding of the problem and also to establish whether there have been any effective measures implemented elsewhere to reduce prison violence. Based on these a number of recommendations are made to improve prison safety in South Africa.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThis publication was mad e possible through the generous support of the Open Society Foundation, South Africa.en_US
dc.identifier.citationMutingh, L. 2009. Reducing prison violence: implications from the literature for South Africa. Research paper. Civil Society Prison Reform Initiative. 1-39en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/5170
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherCivil Society Prison Reform Initiativeen_US
dc.subjectPrison violenceen_US
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.subjectInmate classification and profilingen_US
dc.subjectPrisonsen_US
dc.titleReducing prison violence: implications from the literature for South Africaen_US
dc.typeOtheren_US

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