South - South Crime Prevention Project

Project Co-ordinator, Southern Africa Dr Elrena van der Spuy Institute of Criminology, University of Cape Town Private Bag Rondebosch, 7701 Cape Town Tel.: +27 21 650 2988 Fax: +27 21 650 3790 Email: Elrena.VanDerSpuy@uct.ac.za

Project Co-ordinator, Caribbean Professor Anthony Harriott Head, Department of Government University of West Indies Mona Campus, Kingston, Jamaica Tel. + (876) 512 3357 Fax + (876) 927 0997 Email: anthonydharriott@yahoo.com

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Culture of Legality

Culuture of Legality in Southern Africa

Drugs

Demand reduction in schools Bridges Khulisa Make It Better

 

- Drugs

Bridges

Bridges provided a drug and alcohol education programme, via workshops and its training material, to schools. It targeted Grade 6 to 12 learners, their educators and parents. The programme was founded on reputable research into demand reduction strategies.

For a review of the project, see Griggs, R. (2002) Preventing Crime and Violence in South African Schools at http://www.osf.org.za/Publications/
Also see http://www.sahealthinfo.org/admodule/schoolaudit.htm

Khulisa:

Make It Better Programme: An intervention programme that equips out of school youth with the leadership and organisational skills needed to run community-based projects. These projects are aimed at crime prevention through youth development and include drug education, counselling and support groups, HIV/AIDS education and counselling and cultural and recreational activities. Youth leaders also mentor juvenile offenders enrolled in our New Directions diversion programme. MIB Programmes are currently running at 14 locations around South Africa.

• For an evaluation of this programme see MIB (Make It Better) Youth Development Programmes – April 2004 (425Kb PDF)

Best Practice Projects

Our Project focuses on crime prevention activities that fall within the following themes:

Community Policing:
-	Southern Africa
-	Caribbean

Violence Prevention:
-	Southern Africa
-	Caribbean

Conflict Resolution/Culture of Legality:
-	Southern Africa
-	Caribbean

Offender Reintegration:
-	Southern Africa
-	Caribbean

Click on a theme to view examples of independently reviewed/evaluated best practice projects from Southern African and the Caribbean.

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