Webinar on What is the data telling us about crime? [15 August 2023]

Ahead of the scheduled release by the South African Police Service (SAPS) of the latest Quarterly Crime data, Dr Jean Redpath takes a look at what we can learn from previous quarterly and annual data about the drivers of violent crime in South Africa, primarily through the indicator of murder.

She will look at what the data suggests about demographic profiles and crime, the interaction of unemployment and crime, and the short and long-term impact of intermittent restrictions on alcohol during lockdown. More recently, whether there is any suggestion in the data of an observable impact of load-shedding, of changes in allocations to police stations, and of increases in deployment of the Law Enforcement Advancement Plan (LEAP) in the Western Cape.

Facilitator: Prof Lukas Muntingh (ACJR)

Speaker: Dr Jean Redpath

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ACJR wishes to acknowledge the Open Society Foundations and the Sigrid Rausing Trust for making this webinar possible.