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Perceptions of Violence and Crime as Aggression by Turkish—Islamic Families in Johannesburg
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Estelle August --- University of Johannesburg, Chris Myburgh --- University of Johannesburg, Marie Poggenpoel --- University of Johannesburg,This study explored perceptions of aggression of Turkish-Islamic families with adolescent children in a large South African city. Participants were from four Turkish families with adolescent children (father = 4, mothers = 4; children = 5). Data were collected via... -
Behavioural characteristics of offenders with mental health disorders in a South African prison population
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Johan Prinsloo --- Department of Criminology & Security Science, South Africa Anni Hesselink --- Department of Criminology & Security Science, South AfricaThis exploratory study profiled behavioural characteristics of a non-random sample of 91 offenders with mental illness in a South African correctional facility. The sample is directly related to diagnosed cases from the correctional psychiatrist's case load. The most prevalent mental... -
Factors which predict interpersonal violence in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: Lincoln J Fry --- Sociology and Health Research Units, GreeceBackground: This paper responds to the call for an extensive research agenda to be developed and designed to identify, plan and then implement prevention programmes with respect to violent crime in South Africa. This study began that process by identifying... -
Case pending: practices of inclusion and exclusion in a class of plaintiffs
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Rita Kesselring --- Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Basel, SwitzerlandApartheid victims have had a difficult standing in South Africa in the years that followed the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). In the government's perspective, the TRC had conclusively dealt with apartheid victimhood. Consequently, when victims turned to US courts... -
Revisiting ‘township tourism’: multiple mobilities and the re-territorialisation of township spaces in Cape Town, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Jessica L. Dickson --- University of Cape Town, South AfricaThis article explores themes of social space and mobility significant to tourism within the townships near Cape Town, South Africa. Research on the emergence of ‘township tourism’ has produced contrasting interpretations. Some authors describe essentialised notions of ‘Africanness’, ‘culture’, and... -
Towards human dignity and the internet: The cybercrime (yahoo yahoo) phenomenon in Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Olayinka Akanle --- SARChI Social Policy, South Africa J. O. Adesina --- SARChI Social Policy, South Africa E. P. Akarah --- Department of Sociology, NigeriaThe internet is one of the most pervasive technological innovations in human history. While it is a double-edged sword, its implications for human dignity, privacy, protection and development are complicated, under-researched and weakly understood. It is against this background that... -
The Illusion of Truth in Three Kenyan Crime Novels
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Larry Ndivo --- Department of Linguistics & Languages, KenyaFocusing on crime autobiography in Kenya, this article reads John Kiriamiti’s three novels, My Life in Crime (1984), My Life with a Criminal: Milly’s Story (1989) and My Life in Prison (2004) to argue that although the writer adopts confession... -
Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever presenting with undiagnosed chronic myeloid leukaemia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Infectious Diseases • Authors: Marius J Coetzee --- Department of Haematology and Cell Biology, South Africa Lucille H Blumberg --- Centre for Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Service, South Africa Janusz T Paweska --- Special Pathogens Unit, South Africa Pat Leman --- Special Pathogens Unit, South Africa Robert Swanepoel --- Special Pathogens Unit, South Africa André de Kock --- Department of Haematology and Cell Biology, South AfricaA patient with Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) presented with a high white cell count and splenomegaly. Underlying chronic myeloid leukaemia was diagnosed. The management of this complex case was difficult, and the patient demised. This case illustrates that in patients... -
An integrative review of South Africa’s approach to victim support
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Marelize Schoeman --- Department of Criminology and Security Science, South AfricaThis integrative review seeks to consider the evidence on how crime victims’ rights are served within South Africa’s criminal justice system. Victims view criminal proceeding as the means through which justice for the harms they suffered can be obtained. Such... -
Performing Urban Social Realities in Contemporary Kenya: A Reading of episodes of Vioja Mahakamani
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Violet Nasambu Barasa --- , KenyaThis article examines class dynamics in Kenya’s urban cities using television theatre episodes that dramatise the interaction between marginalised and privileged citizens. In the main, the analysis in the article focuses on selected Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) television theatre texts... -
Criminal psychology trend prediction based on deep learning algorithm and three-dimensional convolutional neural network
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Yan Fan --- , ChinaIn the modern era, the empirical analysis of countermeasures against crime has developed rapidly from the perspective of crime causes. The concept of punishment based on preventionism has been vigorously developed. We aimed to apply the principle of convolutional neural... -
Aspects of the illegal hunting and trade of vultures in northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Nomthandazo S Manqele --- University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa SA Jeanetta Selier --- South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), South Africa Colleen T Downs --- University of KwaZulu-Natal, South AfricaThe harvesting and trade of species for use in traditional medicine, or muthi, is predominantly illegal, unregulated, and likely unsustainable, representing a major conservation challenge. In South Africa, vulture populations have declined considerably in recent decades, but evidence shows a... -
Childhood Trauma and Remembrance: Weaponised PTSD in Glaydah Namukasa’s The Deadly Ambition
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Gabriel Kosiso Okonkwo --- Rhodes University, South AfricaDefining crime within the prism of personal responsibility without recourse to its triggers engenders post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in victims of unfair hearings. While literary studies interrogating blame for traumatic reactions on the basis of personal responsibility or choice abound,... -
A discursive engagement of evasions in police-suspect interactions in Ibadan, Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Temidayo Akinrinlola --- McPherson University, Nigeria Temitope Michael Ajayi --- University of Ibadan, NigeriaThis study reports the discursive appeals embedded in the deployment of evasions in police-suspect interactions (PSIs) in Ibadan. Studies have marked investigating police officers (IPOs) as participants who overtly wield power during interrogation. This study argues that power is not...