Publications
Correctional Services
Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (2004). Submission to the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Correctional Services on the Draft White Paper on Corrections in South Africa, 3 February.
Dissel, A. (2005). Offenders as Victims: exploring the interchangeability of victim and offender roles. In Davis, L. & Snyman, R. (eds), Victimology in South Africa. Pretoria: Van Schaik Publishers.
Dissel, A. (2005). Piloting Victim-Offender Conferencing in South Africa. In Beyond Retribution: Prospects for Restorative Justice in South Africa, Institute for Security Studies Monograph No. 111, February.
Dissel, A. (2003). Giving a Face to Crime: Report on the Second Phase of the Restorative Justice Initiative Victim Offender Conference Project. Report of the Restorative Justice Initiative, April.
Dissel, A. (2001). Prison Conditions in Africa. Research report written for the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, September.
Dissel, A. & Ellis, S. (2002). Reform and Stasis: Transformation in South African Prisons. Paper first published in "Ambitions réformatrices et inertie du social dans les prisons sud-africaines", Critique Internationale No. 16, July.
Dissel, A. & Kollapen, J. (2002). Racism and Discrimination in the South African Penal System. Research report written for Penal Reform International and the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, April.
Dissel, A. & Muntingh, L. (2003). Alliance for Crime Prevention Position Paper on Corrections, August.
Gear, S. (2007). Fear, Violence and Sexual Violence in a Gauteng Juvenile Correctional Centre for Males. Briefing report written for the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, No. 2, September. [
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Gear, S. (2007). Doing Time in a Gauteng Juvenile Correctional Centre for Males. Briefing report written for the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, No. 1, September. [
Gear, S. (2005). Rules of Engagement: Structuring sex and damage in men's prisons and beyond. In Culture, Health & Sexuality, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 195-208, May. [
Gear, S. (2001). Sex, Sexual Violence and Coercion in Men's Prisons: A literature review. Paper presented at AIDS in Context International Conference, 4-7 April, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa.
Gear, S. & Ngubeni, K. (2003). Your Brother, My Wife: Sex and gender behind bars. In SA Crime Quarterly No 4, June.
Gear, S. & Ngubeni, K. (2002). Daai Ding: Sex, sexual violence and coercion in men's prisons. Research report written for the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, September. Hard copies available on request from Bilkees Vawda at bvawda@csvr.org.za.
Greenbaum, B. (2006). Evaluation of the 2005 Ex-Combatants' Dialogues. External Assessment of Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) Ex-Combatants Reintegration and Restorative Justice Project, February.
Haffejee, S., Vetten, L. & Greyling, M. (2006). Violence and Abuse in the Lives of Women and Girls Incarcerated in Three Gauteng Women's Prisons. CSVR Gender Programme, Research Brief No. 03, February. [
Haffejee, S., Vetten, L. & Greyling, M. (2006). Minority Report: The imprisonment of women and girls in Gauteng. CSVR Gender Programme, Research Brief No. 04, February. [
Mkhondo, L. (2005). Vuka S'hambe: Young prisoners' awakening. Project report and evaluation written for the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, March.
Muntingh, L. (2007). Prisons in South Africa’s Constitutional Democracy. Research report written for the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, October. [
Ramírez-Barat, C. & van der Merwe, H. (2005). Seeking Reconciliation and Reintegration: Assessment of a Pilot Restorative Justice Mediation Project. Research report written for the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, February.
Roper, M. (2007). External Evaluation of the Three Year Integrated Youth Offender Programme in Boksburg Correctional Centre South Africa. Research report written for the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, August.
Roper, M. (2005). A review of the Integrated Youth Offender Programme piloted in Boksburg Juvenile Correctional Centre with the "Inkanyezi yentathakusa". Research report written for the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, March.
Savage, K. (2000). Negotiating the Release of Political Prisoners in South Africa. Research report written for the Northern Ireland Programme at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.
Steinberg, J. (2005). Prison Overcrowding and the Constitutional Right to Adequate Accommodation in South Africa. Paper commissioned by the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, January.
Steinberg, J. (2004). The Number. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball.
Steinberg, J. (2004). Nongoloza's Children: Western Cape prison gangs during and after apartheid. Monograph written for the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, July. Hard copies available on request from Bilkees Vawda at bvawda@csvr.org.za.
