| Day 1: Thursday 25 October 2012 |
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| 08h00 - 08h30 |
REGISTRATION |
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| 08h30 - 08h45 |
OPENING AND
WELCOME |
| Dr
Paul-Simon Handy, Deputy Executive Director (Acting) Institute for Security
Studies |
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| 08h45 - 09h30 |
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: TRANSFORMING
THE JUDICIARY IN SOUTH AFRICA: HOW FAR HAVE WE COME? |
| Judge
Selby Baqwa |
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| 09h30 - 11h15 |
WHAT TO DO ABOUT
`HATE`? STATE RESPONSES TO CRIMES OF PREJUDICE |
| |
| • Look
before you leap: Hate crime legislation reconsidered |
| Dr Bill
Dixon, Keele University, UK |
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| • South
Africa - A home for all? A need for hate crime legislation to provide equal
protection |
| Prof.
Juan Nel, UNISA, South Africa |
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| •
Homophobic hate crimes: collective state failure and the response of civil
society |
| Ms Kerry
Williams, Partner (Public Law Practice Group), Webber Wentzel, South Africa |
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| •
Dealing with hate crime: a perspective from the South African Human Rights
Commission |
| |
Dr Danny Titus, Human Rights
Commission, South Africa |
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| 11h15 - 11h30 |
TEA AND COFFEE BREAK |
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| 11h30 - 13h00 |
CRIMINAL JUSTICE
SYSTEM REFORM |
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| •
Malawi’s criminal justice system: Reforms, challenges and opportunities since
1994 |
| Adv.
Pacharo Kayira, Ministry of Justice, Malawi |
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| •
Criminal justice: Stakeholders perspectives |
| Robyn
Leslie, Wits Justice Project, South Africa |
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| • The
role of civil society in criminal justice reform |
| Gareth
Newham, Crime and Justice Programme, Institute for Security Studies |
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| 13h00 - 14h00 |
LUNCH |
|
| 14h00 – 15h30 |
THE ROLE OF
INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW IN ADVANCING DOMESTIC CRIMINAL JUSTICE |
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| • The nature of the gravity requirement in
national prosecutions of international crimes |
| Adv. Gus
Waschefort, University of Pretoria, South Africa |
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| • The
‘will’ to prosecute international crimes in the domestic domain |
| Dr Torie
Pretorius, National Prosecuting Authority, South Africa |
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| •
International criminal justice in South Africa: Better at securing justice
for foreign victims than its |
| own? |
| Ms
Nicole Fritz, Director, Southern Africa Litigation Centre, South Africa |
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| Parallel session |
CRIME PREVENTION |
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| • The
rise and decline of community-based mobilisation against crime in the new
South Africa: |
| The case
of the Western Cape anti-crime forum, 1994-2004 |
| Prof.
Elrena van der Spuy, University of Cape Town, South Africa |
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| •
Dancing with two feet: Building community safety |
| Prof.
John Cartwright, University of Cape Town, South Africa |
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| • The
power of connection: Building a community safety initiative |
| Dr
Chandré Gould, Institute for Security Studies, South Africa |
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| •
Violence is not a crime |
| Dr
Anthony Collins, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa |
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| 15h30 - 15h45 |
TEA AND COFFEE BREAK |
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| 15h45 - 17h15 |
TERRORISM AND
ORGANISED CRIME |
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| •
Terrorism and its challenges to the criminal justice system in Nigeria |
Mr
Samuel Obadiah, Centre for Conflict Management and Peace Studies,
Nigeria |
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| • Space
of terror: The challenges of insecurity in Nigeria |
| Dr
Bolaji Omitola, Osun State University, Nigeria |
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| •
Scripts and organised crime: Facilitating factors and intervention
points |
| Prof.
Joshua Freilich, John Jay College, USA |
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| •
Assessing the scope of legal profession privilege in combating money
laundering through the legal |
| profession
in Kenya |
| Ms
Jackline M Mwangi, University of the Western Cape, South Africa |
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| Parallel session |
PREVENTING CHILD
ABUSE AND NEGLECT THROUGH PARENTING: EVIDENCE AND INTERVENTIONS |
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| •
Reviewing the evidence for the effectiveness of parenting interventions for
the prevention of child |
| abuse
and neglect |
| Ms
Elizabeth Dartnall, Sexual Violence Research Initiative, Medical Research
Council, South Africa |
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| •
Improving quality of mother–infant relationship and infant attachment in
socio-economically |
| deprived
community in South Africa: Randomised control trial |
| Prof.
Mark Tomlinson, Stellenbosch University, South Africa |
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| • Home
Instruction for Parents of Pre-School Youngsters in South Africa (HIPPY SA):
A home visiting |
| programme |
| Ms
Khadija Richards, HIPPY SA |
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| •
Community-based efforts for the prevention of child sexual abuse |
| Ms
Sarita Hudson, Stop It Now!, USA |
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| Day 2: Friday 26 October 2012 |
|
| 09h00 - 10h45 |
IMPROVING ACCESS TO JUSTICE |
| |
| • Remand
population: The weakest link in Uganda’s criminal justice system |
| Dr
Donald Rukare, Global Rights, Uganda |
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| •
Restorative justice, criminal justice and access to justice: a balancing
act |
| Dr Hema
Hargovan, University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa |
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| • The
evolution, impact and future prospects of paralegalism in Africa’s criminal
justice systems |
| Martin
Schönteich, John Jay College, USA |
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| Parallel session |
POLICING |
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| • One
country two systems of policing: People’s Republic of China Gong An vs Hong
Kong Police reform |
| Prof.
Kam Wong, Xavier University, USA |
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| • What
price fairness? Antecedents of police legitimacy in South Africa |
| Mr
Benjamin Roberts, Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa |
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| •
Professionalism and the South African Police Service: What is it and where
should it go? |
| Mr
Andrew Faull, Oxford University, UK |
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| •
Comparing the realisation of policing professionalism in Ethiopia and South
Africa |
| Prof.
Rika Snyman, UNISA, South Africa, and Commander Demelash Debalkie, University
of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia |
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| 10h45 - 11h10 |
TEA AND COFFEE BREAK |
|
| 11h10 - 13h00 |
UNDERSTANDING
CRIME IN SOUTH AFRICA |
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| •
Addressing business robberies affecting Somali traders in Cape Town’s
townships |
| Ms Vanya
Gastrow, ACMS, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa |
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| •
Exploring the relationship between social disorganisation and property crime
in Gauteng South Africa |
| Ms
Alexandra Hiropoulos and Associate Prof. Jeremy R Porter, John Jay College,
USA |
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| •
Understanding drivers of crime victimisation across South African and the
role of the SA Police Force |
| in
reducing the levels of crime |
| Dr Erik
Alder, The American University, USA |
| |
| • A
national estimate of homicide: Results from the 2009 Injury Mortality
Survey |
| Ms Megan
Prinsloo, Medical Research Council, South Africa |
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| Parallel session |
SEEKING
SOLUTIONS TO CRIME AND REHABILITATION OF OFFENDERS |
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| • Why do
some men rape babies? Some findings from a qualitative study conducted with
ten incarcerated |
| rapists |
| Dr
Amelia Kleijn, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa |
| |
| • ‘Will
the real social worker please stand up!’ Defining criminal justice social
work |
| Prof.
Leon Holtzhauzen, University of Cape Town, South Africa |
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| • A
randomised controlled trial of an employment-based re-entry program for
ex-offenders and its |
| implications
for South African corrections |
| Prof.
Sheldon X Zhang, San Diego State University, USA, and Prof. David Farabee,
University of California, Los Angeles, USA |
| |
| 13h00 - 13h45 |
LUNCH |
|
| 13h45 - 15h00 |
THE STATE OF
CORRUPTION IN SOUTH AFRICA |
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| •
Citizens reporting of corruption in South Africa: Reports received at
Corruption Watch since its launch |
| Ms
Janine Rauch, Corruption Watch, South Africa |
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| •
Corruption and accumulation: theoretical, historical and comparative
perspectives |
| Prof.
David Moore, University of Johannesburg, South Africa |
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| •
Dealing with corruption: a perspective from the Public Service Commission |
| Dr
Dovhani Mamphiswana, Deputy Director-General: Integrity and Anti- Corruption,
Office of the Public Service Commission, South Africa |
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| 15h00 |
CLOSURE |
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