The HSRC has embarked upon a new project on violent crime and social citizenship. This article is about this new project.

Exposure to violence puts children at risk for developing a variety of problems, including depression, anxiety, and conduct problems. The extent to which children's individual, family, school, and peer group characteristics ...

Levels of violence and violent crime amongst young people in South Africa are extraordinarily high and, on the surface at least, evidence of lawlessness and a moral crisis. Responding to historian Eric Hobsbawm's 1969 ...

South Africa is reported to have one of the highest rates of sexual violence in the world, with adolescent girls between the ages of 12 and 17 being particularly at risk. Given that adolescence is considered a critical ...

This chapter explores the nature and risk and protective factors influencing children's development in South Africa and the implications for levels of violent behaviour. It examines the different contexts in which children ...