NCJ Number
185862
Journal
Siyaya! Issue: 5 Dated: Winter 1999 Pages: 10-12
Editor(s)
Janine Rauch
Date Published
1999
Length
3 pages
Annotation
Difficulties and challenges in implementing the National Crime Prevention Strategy (NCPS) in South Africa are noted, with emphasis on preventing violence through the criminal justice system.
Abstract
The philosophy behind the NCPS suggests that tackling violence through the criminal justice system alone is socially undesirable and financially impossible. Rather than brutalize society by incarcerating its citizens on a large scale, the priority should be to discover what it is about the social environment that causes individuals to commit violent acts and to change their behavior. To this end, the four pillars of the NCPS are: (1) to re-engineer the South African criminal justice system; (2) to reshape community values; (3) to focus on environmental design as a crime prevention approach; and (4) to police international borders. Projects affiliated with the NCPS to prevent crime are noted, particularly projects dealing with prisons, alternatives to monetary bail for indigents, and vehicle theft. 1 photograph