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Many countries around the world recorded dramatic declines in crime under lockdown. South Africa was among them, with major reductions across most crime types.
Some 60,000 Brazilians are killed each year, accounting for 10% of all homicides worldwide. As terrorised voters look to authoritarian leaders to impose order, Brazil’s democracy hangs in the balance.
A controversial report claims that Mexico is more violent than Afghanistan and Yemen. It’s wrong on the details but right that Mexico is, in effect, a war zone.
Energy and Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg said he thought that Victorians have never felt more unsafe, and that burglaries, assaults and murders are rising year-on-year. Is he right?
What one isolated case tells us about crime and community on this special island.
South Africa has stubbornly high rates of violent crime. More concerning, though, is that the latest crime stats suggest the recent increase in murders is not slowing - it may even continue.
The widely-held assumption that murder rates have been increasing in South Africa in the past two decades is incorrect – and it may divert attention from a new problem that needs attention.
It is exactly forty years since the Soweto uprising in June 1976 where the South African police met the students with brutal force. How much has changed in terms of policing?
In response to high levels of crime, South Africans have turned their homes into fortresses, seeking security behind high walls. But doing so might be counter-productive.
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Postdoctoral fellow, University of Cape Town
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Director and Senior Researcher, Melbourne Criminological Research and Evaluation, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Criminal Justice and Criminology, Bond University
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Senior Lecturer in Human Rights, Constitutional Law and Legal Theory, University of Wollongong
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Research Associate at UCT's Centre of Criminology, Consultant at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), University of Cape Town
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Head of Urban Futures Centre, Durban University of Technology
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Director of the Centre of Criminology, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Criminology, University of Portsmouth
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Professor of Sociology, University of Iceland
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Professor, School of Business Administration (EAESP), Fundação Getulio Vargas
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Honorary research affiliate, Centre of Criminology, University of Cape Town
