The Crime Prevention Working Group of the Global Consortium on Security Transformation (GCST) held their second meeting at the Centre of Criminology, University of Cape Town from the 3rd to the 4th November 2010. The delegates included Alexandra Abello, presently at the University of Bradford, UK as GCST’s grantee; Rahel Uyugi, African Institute for Health and Development (AIHD), Kenya; Enrique Font, Secretary of Community Safety of Provincial Government of Santa Fe, Argentina; Juma Assiago, Safer Cities Programme, UN-Habitat; Dina Shehayeb, Professor and Researcher at Housing and Building National Research Centre (HBRC), Egypt; Louise Ehlers, Senior Project Officer, Criminal Justice Initiative, Open Society Foundation of South Africa; Ana Maura Tomesani of the Brazilian Forum of Public Safety, Brazil; Sonja Wolf, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Charmaine Badenhorst, Crime Prevention Centre, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR); Adrianus Meliala, Head of the Department of Criminology, University of Indonesia; Guy Lamb, Senior Researcher, Arms Management Project, Institute for Security Studies; Patrick Burton, Director, Centre for Justice and Crime Prevention, South Africa; Sean Tait, APCOF, and Felipe Salazar, GCST/FLACSO-Chile, who was the organiser of the workshop.
Paul Rock, Professor of Social Institutions in the Department of Sociology at the Mannheim Centre for Criminology, London School of Economics gave the keynote address at the workshop Criminology at the Edge: Debating Theoretical Perspectives in Criminologyheld at the Law Faculty on the 9th- 10th October 2010
During January 2010 the Centre was fortunate to welcome International policing scholars to the conference Politics, Theory and Methods of Policing Research:Innovations and Trends that was held at Monkey Valley Conference Centre in Noordhoek near Cape Town.
Prof. David Bayley, shared his research experience with students at the Centre and gave the keynote addess at the conference. David is a distinguished professor in the School of Criminal Justice at the University at Albany, State University of New York. His numerous publications include, Changing the Guard: Developing Democratic Police Abroad and What Works in Policing. His most recent book with Robert M Perito is The Police in War: Fighting Insurgencey, Terrorism, and Violent Crime.
Prof. Alice Hills, spoke at the conference on "Critical Issues for Police Studies in Africa". She is Professor of Conflict and Security at the University of Leeds in the Politics and International Studies Department. Her personal research interests relate to policemilitary relations, policing post-conflict cities, and police reform. Her most recent book is Policing Post-Conflict Cities ,Zed Books 2009.
Prof. Pat O’Malley gave the cocktail address at the conference on “Simulated government: Policing Telematic Societies”. Pat is a Professor at the Sydney Law School Sydney University, Australia. His latest book is Crime and Risk Sage: London (forthcoming).
Dr Eban Ebai and Chelete Monyane are post-doctoral candidates currently at the Centre. Eban is from Cameroon qualified with a PhD (Law) at the University of Limerick, Ireland. His thesis explores “The Role and Development of Human Rights Based Policing in the Transition from Dictatorship to Democracy in Cameroon”. Chelete Monyane obtained his doctorate at Stellenbosch University in 2009 and has joined the Centre to research in the area of police reform.
Liora Lazarus, lecturer at the Law Faculty of Oxford University visited the Centre during August 2009 and again in March 2010. Dr. Lazarus is a fellow of St. Anne's College and is a research associate of the Law Faculty, University of Cape Town. Her research interests are comparative human rights, security and human rights, comparative penal theory and comparative criminal justice. A recent publication, co-edited with Benjamin Goold, is Security and Human Rights (Hart Publishing, 2007).
Philip Stenning, is a Professor at Keele University, School of Sociology and Criminology. His research interests include, amongst others, public and private policing, and accountability in criminal justice. Philip presented a seminar at the Leadership School, South African Police Service College in Paarl while in Cape Town in July 2009 and spoke about effective police accountability, his presentation probing what's in it for the police?
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Scott Burris, Professor of Law, Temple University, Beasley School of Law, visited the Centre of Criminology from January to June 2009. He is a Senior Associate, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Hygiene and Public Health. Associate Director, Centers for Law and the Public's Health: A Collaborative at the Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities. His interest is in security and health, and international law and health, which looks at how a range of international treaty regimes influence health and health policy. You can find more information about his work on http://www.temple.edu/lawschool/phrhcs/index.html. |
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Benoît Dupont visited the Centre of Criminology for a 5 month period until February 2009. Benoit is Deputy Director of the International Centre for Comparative Criminology (CICC) at the University of Montreal, and associate professor at the School of Criminology. He is also the holder of the Canada research chair in security, identity and technology. He has published 7 books and more than 40 peer reviewed articles and chapters on issues related to police management and security governance. |
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Michigan State University (MSU) staff visited the Centre in January 2009. The visitors included Professors Carole Gibbs, Meredith Gore, Louie Rivers and Edmund McGarrell. Carole and Meredith have joint appointments in criminal justice and fisheries and wildlife and Louie holds a joint appointment in criminal justice and environmental science and policy. Maria Hauck from the EEU who works in environmental criminology (UCT) also attended. The seminar allowed the Environmental Group at the Centre to explore potential research and education collaborative opportunities. The visiting team's interest derives from the development of a conservation criminology program at MSU that links criminology and criminal justice with natural resource management, risk and decision sciences. In addition to conservation criminology, the MSU team has interests in policing and security that are similar to those of the Centre. |
Members of the University of York's, Centre for Applied Human Rights visited Cape Town In early December 2008 and attended a seminar with the Centre of Criminology on Tuesday 9th December. Masters students and two human rights defender from Palestine and Iraq, together with the Director of the Centre Prof. Paul Gready and lecturer Dr. Michael Kearney, shared information with students and researchers at the Centre of Criminology. The MA students from the Centre for Applied Human Rights are working with Non-governmental organisations in Cape Town during their stay. Adam Armstrong, a Master's student at the Centre of Criminology, presented his research on Muizenberg, Space, Security and Governance. |
Other Visitors included a steady flow of international scholars visiting the Centre in 2008 – Professor Bill Dixon from Keele University, Professor Todd Clear, John Jay College (New York), Professor Michael Kempa, University of Ottawa, Steffen Jensen, Copenhagen, Lourent Fourchard, Institut d'Etudes, Thomas Feltes, University of Bochum (Germany), Professor Jan Froestad, University of Bergen (Norway), Christina Hentschel, University of Leipzig (Germany), Professor Benoit Dupont, University of Montreal and Marcel Zethoven from Dutch Police. All have taken part in seminars and shared their knowledge and international expertise with researchers and students. Local visitors included Nirmala Gopal from the University of Kwazulu Natal and Stephan Schulz from the Polytechnic of Namibia.