Current News
- Melissa Meyer
Melissa Meyer shares some key findings of her research on Millennial perceptions of, and experiences with, sexting.
- Simon Howell, 17 March 2016
Simon Howell explains why the speech of South Africa's Deputy Minister for Social Development at the Commission on Narcotic Drugs this week is such a significant step forward for drug policy reform.
On the 15th March, from 17.30-19.00, the Environmental Security Observatory (ESO)will hosting a seminar, "Green Violence in the Kruger National Park" with guest speaker, Maano Ramutsindela, Prof in Environmental and Geographical Sciences. Prof Mark Shaw will be the respondent.
This week, UCT Centre of Criminology hosts leading global experts in urban security for a United Nations Expert Group to review a UCT authored practical guide to "Governing Safer Cities in a Globalised World".
- An interview with Mark Shaw and Tuesday Reitano by Financial Nigeria magazine, 5th February 2016
In a study commissioned by the OECD on Criminal Economies in West Africa, the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime concludes that reducing or returning IFFs will fail to translate into development benefits for ordinary people if elite corruption remains, and governments show minimal efforts towards providing a broad-based development orientation.
- Grainne Perkins, 3 February 2016
With the rate of police suicide in the South African Police Service at epidemic levels, Centre of Criminology PhD Student, Grainne Perkins, explores why the nomenclature, attitudes and administrative responses to this phenomena need urgently to be addressed.
- Amanda Cabrejo Le Roux, 3 February 2016
A visiting scholar from the Sorbonne Law School in Paris reflects on her time at the Centre for Criminology, the benefits of being part of the UCT Community, studying in South Africa and the global perspectives of students and staff.
- Andrew Faull, 22 January 2016
The South African Police Service (SAPS) is increasingly using social media to bolster its public image. Post-doctoral Fellow, Andrew Faull, asks whether that is enough to change common public perceptions that police are corrupt and brual?
The Centre for Criminology is proud to launch a new Summer School course joint with the London School of Economics (LSE) that looks at the management of global drug control, the primary societal impacts of illicit markets and organised crime, and the current global framework for countering them.
- Andrew Faull and Joseph Shaw, 15 January 2016
In an Op Ed published in the Daily Maverick, Centre of Criminology Post-Doctoral Fellow Andrew Faull, and law graduate Joseph Shaw, weigh in on whether and how the 'Riotous Behaviour' law is being misused by police.
- Carina Bruwer, 24 December 2015
Carina Bruwer explores whether the recent judgment in the case of Robert McBride’s suspension as the head of the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) may have wider implications for the appointment of the new SAPS National Commissioner.
- Andrew Faull, 9 December 2015
In the context of the global #16DaysoOfActivisim campaign against gender-based violence, Post-Doctoral Fellow Andrew Faull reflects on how gender identities are impacted by violence in South Africa, and how protecting women and children also means focussing on our country's men.