Stolen opportunities
Subtitle: the impact of crime on South Africa's poor
By: Antoinette Louw and Mark Shaw
Series: ISS monograph series -- no. 14
Publisher: Institute for Security Studies
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Halfway House, South Africa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 73
Subjects: Crime; Poor; Social conditions
Description: Crime is of increasing concern to South Africa's citizenry and government. Despite the prominence of criminality as an issue, suprisingly little is known about it as a phenomenon. South Africa has some of the highest rates of violent crime in the world - yet very little can be said about how these crimes occur, where they occur, and whom they affect. This has significant implications not only for an understanding of the causes of crime but also for the implementation of appropriate policies to combat crime.