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Jean Redpath and Michael O’ Donovan are researching public law and sustainable cities, for the African Centre for Cities, and the Democracy, Governance and Rights Unit, both at the University of Cape Town. In October 2009 Michael presented some preliminary results at a seminar hosted by the DGRU, entitled Is densification just a cruel mirage? [...]

The Soros Foundation Moldova published its report on the Moldovan criminal justice system in November 2009. Moldova is a former republic of the USSR, situated between Romania and the Ukraine.
Jean Redpath was international consultant to this report and she, together in particular with Nadejda Hriptievschi, wrote the English version of the report, which is available [...]

Michael O’ Donovan has been selected as a a member of the SABC’s panel of experts who will provide commentary on the 2009 election results.

Jean Redpath and Michael O’Donovan have made a submission to Parliament regarding the two Bills which seek to relocate the Scorpions under the SAPS. They argue that the move will negative implications for governance, organised crime, and Parliament.

Jean Redpath debated the issue of whether or to what extent incarceration can be considered to be a crime prevention intervention in a Wolpe Trust debate on 22 November 2007.
Jean Redpath and Michael O’Donovan have been commissioned by New Africa Books to write a book about crime in South Africa. The book will look at [...]

The Criminal Law Sentencing Amendment Bill (B15-2007) is currently before Parliament. Halakanaphila Analytics has made a written submission to Parliament on the Bill, arguing that South Africa needs comprehensive sentencing reform and should not simply make permanent a bad law, which the Bill seeks to do. Furthermore, if the Bill is passed, more frequent [...]

On 11 April 2007 the Centre for Justice and Crime Prevention presented an extended version of their crime mapping tool at an Institute for Security Studies seminar. The extended version of the mapping tool incorporates data on both household income and inequality, via the Gini coefficient. The mapping tool was developed and extended by Michael [...]

SANDF AIDS Data – 2004: The combat readiness of the South African National Defence Force is under threat, with the latest results of an AIDS project showing that an overwhelming 89 percent of those soldiers who volunteered for testing were HIV-positive.
Statistics of Mobile Telephony in SA
Western Cape Delivery Audit