The concentration of urban crime in space by race: evidence from South Africa

Breetzke, Gregory Dennis

doi:10.1080/02723638.2018.1440127

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“…Furthermore, Bell and Blanchflower [36] point out that the longer one stays unemployed, the lesser the likelihood of finding employment thus giving rise to crime rates. From the point of crime rate, that insight reinforces [37] study which somewhat linked high unemployment to high crime rate.…”

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Scavenging for Survival and its Health Implications. The nexus between Unemployment and Ill-health

Iwu

Eze

Opute³

et al. 2021

Wseas Transactions on Environment and Development

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According to a popular adage, when the going gets tough, the tough gets going. With unemployment on the constant increase in South Africa, people are becoming more relentless in seeking means to earn a living. Waste picking has become, for example, an option for individuals in responding to the economic challenge in order to provide for themselves and families. By odd, the researchers refer to foraging in bins for items that have been discarded by others, which may be sold for cash. Although this practice offers an opportunity for self-employment, there is also a concern that those who deal in waste may be exposing themselves and perhaps their families to social stigma and health problems. This article looks at both the challenges of waste picking (more specifically health) and the desperate state of unemployment in South Africa. In doing that, we aim to address three central questions: (1) why are people waste picking? (2) Is waste picking a sustainable venture? and (3) what are the challenges in waste picking? To obtain deeper insights into the themes captured in the aforementioned research questions; face to face interviews were conducted with participants. Empirically, four central factors push participants into waste picking ventures: unemployment, retrenchment, unemployability, and the need for augmented income. Also, we found that although waste pickers continue the practice to sustain themselves and their families, waste picking does not sufficiently offer sustainable income, improved livelihoods nor reduced dependency on public social and health systems. There is a need to enhance the capacity of the South African public health system to adequately cater for those who regularly need its services and as this study has shown, the continuous practice of waste picking is synonymous with ill health and pressure on public health systems. We flag directions for future research.

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confidence: 56%

Scavenging for Survival and its Health Implications. The nexus between Unemployment and Ill-health

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Eze

Opute³

et al. 2021

Wseas Transactions on Environment and Development

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“…South Africa has the highest rate of inequality in the world, driven almost exclusively along racial lines. Countrywide, more than 45% of Black Africans are unemployed compared with only 5% of Whites (Breetske, 2018).…”

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Attempted and Completed Parricides in South Africa, 1990–2019

Moen

Shon

2020

Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol

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Previous studies of parricide have been carried out predominantly in a Western context, in North America, Australia, and Western Europe. To date, only a handful of studies in parricide have been conducted in continental Africa. Previous studies in Ghana and Zimbabwe note that there may be culture-specific ways in which parricides may be shaped by the norms and cultural beliefs systems within those respective countries. Missing from the literature is an examination of parricides in South Africa. Using newspapers and court records, this article examines the offense and offender characteristics of parricides in South Africa. Our findings suggest that residential patterns of families may shape the offense characteristics found in South African parricides.

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Multiple‐victim parricides in South Africa, 1990–2019

Moen

Shon

2020

Journal Invest Psychology

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Previous studies of homicides in South Africa have examined serial murders and mass killings. While some scholars have examined parricides in African countries such as Ghana and Zimbabwe, few have examined the intersection of parricide and multiple victim homicides in the context of South Africa. This paper examines multiple victim parricides in a South African context using newspapers and court records as data. Eighteen cases of multiple-victim parricides were identified and analysed. Our findings indicate that multiple victim parricides in South Africa are shaped by residential patterns as well as social and cultural factors that are unique to South Africa that are embodied in the offence characteristics. The implications on the findings are discussed.

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The concentration of urban crime in space by race: evidence from South Africa

Cited by 30 publications

References 63 publications

Scavenging for Survival and its Health Implications. The nexus between Unemployment and Ill-health

Scavenging for Survival and its Health Implications. The nexus between Unemployment and Ill-health

Attempted and Completed Parricides in South Africa, 1990–2019

Multiple‐victim parricides in South Africa, 1990–2019

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