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CRIMSA NEWSLETTER No 53: 2010 ______ CRIMSA Postnet Suite #468 P/Bag X15 MENLOPARK 0102 CRIMSA NEWSLETTER No 53: 2010 ______________________________________________ Views expressed by contributors do not necessarily reflect those held by CRIMSA The editor/s reserve the right to shorten/edit contributions Back copies are archived on CRIMSA website at www.crimsa.ac.za CONTENTS 1. FROM THE CRIMSA PRESIDENT 2. FROM THE EDITOR 3. NEWS BRIEFS 4. CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP REPORTS 5. FORTHCOMING CONFERENCES 6. FORTHCOMING WORKSHOPS AND SEMINARS 7. RESEARCH PROJECTS 8. POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS 9. NEW PUBLICATIONS 10. JOURNAL ARTICLES 11. CALL FOR JOURNAL ARTICLES 12. WEBSITES AND ONLINE JOURNALS 13. CRIMSA MEMBERSHIP (NEW/RENEWAL) AND MEMBERSHIP FEES 2011 14. MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION AND/OR RENEWAL FORM 15. MEMBERSHIP FORM WORLD SOCIETY OF VICTIMOLOGY FROM THE CRIMSA PRESIDENT FROM THE EDITOR WITHDRAWAL OF CRIMSA FROM In her Budget Vote speech on 25 March HOSTING AND ORGANISING OF THE 2010, Ms Hlengiwe Mkhize, Deputy INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR Minister of Correctional Services, CRIMINOLOGY (ISC) CONGRESS IN highlighted that the rehabilitation of 2014 offenders is at the centre of all activities undertaken by the Department of After receiving three quotes from Correctional Services, in association conference venues and three from with external stakeholders. In addition, Professional Conference Organisers Ms Mkhize noted that it is also companies, drawing up of an important to focus on the youth of operational budget and the attendance South Africa, as there are currently a of the CRIMSA President at the ISC large number of sentenced and Board Meeting in Leuven, Belgium on 3 unsentenced inmates that fall between July 2010 the hosting of the ISC 18 and 25 years in our correctional Congress in South Africa was discussed centres. As such, news (amongst other) at a CRIMSA EXCO meeting held on 28 specifically relating to the above has July 2010. Due to a number of been included in this newsletter. For circumstances the EXCO reluctantly example: The 13th World Conference of but realistically made a decision to the International Institute for withdraw the CRIMSA offer to host and Restorative Practices; The Centre for organise the ISC Congress in South the Study of Violence and Africa in 2010. Reconciliation‟s activities for the Year of In brief this decision was made on an the Youth initiative; and new analysis of the costs of hosting such an publications such as that by Broom international conference. The resulting and Young titled Creating Hope for Life- funding shortfall necessitated that such Sentenced Offenders, and that by a decision be made in order to avoid Furlong titled Handbook of Youth and placing the Society in financial Young Adulthood. jeopardy. This edition is packed with news on This decision has been passed on to the new publications, websites and online ISC and has been accepted (with journals, MA degrees awarded, new regrets) but with the hope that CRIMSA appointments, presentations to might in the future reconsider and parliament, guest lectures, and a range apply to host a conference in 2017 in of forthcoming conferences and South Africa. workshops. I would like to thank I would like to thank all those who members and institutions for their assisted me in the preliminary planning contributions. To make a success of our and the submissions to the ISC over the newsletter I appeal to all of you in the last three years. broad criminological sciences fields to provide continuous input. Anthony Minnaar Editor: Nicola van der Merwe President: CRIMSA All correspondence related to the newsletter should be emailed to: [email protected] 2 Directorate (ICD) which was initially NEWS BRIEFS established by the South African Police Service Act to deal with issues of police DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL brutality and civilian oversight of the JUSTICE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF Police. Their main submissions related ALABAMA APPOINTS NEW to the independence of the proposed CHAIRPERSON body in comparison with the civilian Congratulations to our CRIMSA oversight models of the United colleague, Professor Mark M. Lanier, Kingdom, the United States as well as with his new position. Prof Lanier is Hong Kong. Prof Montesh and Mr serving as Professor and Chairperson of Dintwe‟s presentations were well the Department of Criminal Justice at received and the members of The University of Alabama. The parliament posed some questions which University of Alabama is a student- emanated from this presentation. centered research university in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. MONASH UNIVERSITY SOUTH AFRICA GETS NEW CRIMINOLOGY DR ROBERT PEACOCK (MONASH STUDENT SOCIETY – ‘CRIMON’ UNIVERSITY SOUTH AFRICA) VISITS CRIMON is a student society, which JAPAN AND BELGIUM was founded by Mr Richard Charlton, Dr Robert Peacock participated as a the current president, and Mr Matthew guest lecturer on the Asian Cronje, the current vice-president. Postgraduate Victimology program of Charlton and Cronje are both final year the International Victimology Intsitute Criminology students at Monash of Tokiwa in Japan from 1 to 13 August University South Africa. CRIMON is 2010. Dr Peacock was also invited as a formally known as the CRIMINOLOGY visiting professor to the Faculty of Law, and VICTIMOLOGY STUDENTS Catholic University of Leuven in SOCIETY OF MONASH SOUTH AFRICA. Belgium to continue with collaborative CRIMON is the first Criminology based work on the Victimology of International students society at Monash South crimes and Transitional Justice. Dr Africa. CRIMON was established on 22 Peacock will visit the University of July 2010. Dr Jaco Barkhuizen Leuven for a period of five weeks during (Monash S.A.) serves as a faculty the months of September and October resource member for CRIMON. 2010. CRIMON was formed with the aim to PROF MOSES MONTESH AND MR empower communities as well as to SETLHOMAMARU DINTWE provide the student members with (UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA) practical experience in the field of MAKE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE Criminology, Victimology and Criminal SOUTH AFRICAN PARLIAMENTARY Justice. CRIMON has identified three PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE ON areas for its initiatives: Community POLICING engagement; Practical experience; and Prof Montesh and Mr Dintwe, both Research. lecturers at the Department Police Community Engagement: Practice, School of Criminal Justice A priority of CRIMON is community (UNISA), made oral submissions to the engagement. CRIMON students feel that Parliamentary Portfolio committee on if they can encourage a positive attitude Policing in Cape Town on 06 August amongst youth and expose them to 2010. The submissions were in relation constructive lifestyle options; it will to the proposed Bill titled “Independent have a far reaching effect on both their Police Investigative Directorate” of own futures and that of society. 2010. This Bill aims to re-establish the current Independent Complaints 3 CRIMON plans to become involved in a services of various countries as well as soccer based diversion programme in members of the academic community Honeydew, Gauteng that utilises soccer and civil society organisations in the as a medium to teach youth in conflict region. The programme provided ample with the law about healthy lifestyles as opportunity for debate and in-depth well as various life skills pertaining to discussion of the challenges involved in team work and social responsibility. the democratic governance of the CRIMON aims to pursue further security sector and the delivery of community projects, which will entail rights-respecting and equitable security the fostering of an awareness of Human and justice services. The following key and Ecological Rights. challenges were highlighted as areas Practical experience: requiring further intervention: Practical experience will enable the The general legal enunciation of members to gain field experience and to civilian control, oversight and advance an understanding of a career democratic norms and standards in Criminology and relating sub- for the governance of the security disciplines. The practical experience sector is adequate, but will include events such as arranging implementation is tenuous due internships with various related NGO‟s, to weak institutions, human and institutions, and private sector financial constraints, party companies. partisanship and political Research: interference. CRIMON will promote student research. There is a lack of coherent, Research will be done in South Africa integrated national and regional and Australia in the specialisation field security strategies that enable of Criminology, Victimology and efficient utilization of resources Criminal Justice. The first project will and alignment between national be led by Richard Charlton and and regional priorities and Matthew Cronje. This comparative approaches. project will be on prison gangs in South The primary security challenges Africa. facing the region are embedded in the socio-economic conditions CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP and economic disparities. REPORTS The role of the security sector in providing security and justice SECURITY SECTOR GOVERNANCE services within this broader PROGRAMME OF THE INSTITUTE security agenda needs to be FOR SECURITY STUDIES WORKSHOP discussed further. REPORT The key question is how the The Institute for Studies Studies tasking of traditional security convened a three-day conference on sector actors aligns with non- Security Sector Governance in traditional security Southern Africa at Kievits Kroon vulnerabilities. Country Estate from 17–19 March
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