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- Title
HOW WE REALLY GOT IT WRONG: Understanding the failure of crime prevention.
- Authors
Pelser, Eric
- Abstract
In the previous issue of the SA Crime Quarterly, Antony Altbeker argued that the country's decision after 1994 to 'place the prevention of crime at the centre of the strategic vision for the criminal justice system' undermined the building of an effective criminal justice system and may have led to the country's high crime levels. In response to Altbeker's article which is based on his new book A country at war with itself. South Africa's crisis of crime (published by Jonathan Ball), this article explains why his arguments1 leave one both disappointed and despairing.
- Subjects
AFRICA; CRIME prevention; FAILURE (Psychology); FAILURE analysis; CRIMINAL law; CRIMINAL justice system; JUSTICE; ALTBEKER, Anthony; BALL, Jonathan
- Publication
SA Crime Quarterly, 2007, Issue 22, p1
- ISSN
1991-3877
- Publication type
Article