- Valentina Pancieri
Centre of Criminology’s doctoral student, Valentina Pancieri, reflects on her early encounters with ethics, and offers advice to future students.
- Annette Hübschle
Annette's new book is taking on the rhino horn trade and is the result of years researching the industry. Read the book abstract and find a link to download a complete copy here.
- 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.
By Carmel Rickard
Cape Town — Twenty African High Court judges have had a taste of South Africa's complex political reality: their human rights training course was hurriedly moved after student protests closed the University of Cape Town (UCT) campus.
The judges, in South Africa to examine how to apply international human rights law in appropriate decisions, came from 10 different African countries for the event, presented by the UCT-based Judicial Institute for Africa (Jifa).
Though they should have met for their discussions in the law faculty's Kramer building, organisers moved the workshop off campus for the first few days due to the continuing protests that saw the campus, like others in South Africa, closed for classes.
In the course of the workshop, the judges were thrown even further into the South African situation by the hypothetical cases they were asked to consider, several of which related directly to dramatic events unfolding in the host country.