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| Title: | Alternatives to imprisonment in South Africa: a historical perspective, 1980s to present |
| Author: | Singh, Shanta |
| Year: | 2007 |
| Periodical: | New contree: a journal of historical and human sciences for Southern Africa |
| Issue: | 53 |
| Pages: | 111-134 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | South Africa |
| Subjects: | imprisonment punishment offenders |
| Abstract: | Faced with an ever-increasing number of offenders being held in severely overcrowded prisons South Africa has, since the early 1990s, been investigating alternative methods of punishment and criminal justice. Innovative programmes utilizing community approaches to corrections as alternatives to incarceration, and as a means of facilitating reintegration of the offender into the community following release from an institution, can be more successful and less costly to society. Alternative sanctions include many different initiatives, such as victim-offender reconciliation programmes, restitution and compensation, day fines, community service, electronic monitoring, intensive supervision programmes and boot camps. The author deals in turn with the historical development of community service in South Africa, the purpose of imprisonment, the search for alternatives, community corrections and the cost implications, the purpose of community-based alternatives (or intermediate sanctions) and whether community service sentencing can be seen as a punishment, and official alternative sentences (community-based sentences, correctional supervision, fines, suspension of sentences, postponement of sentences, compensation, diversion). Ref., sum. in Afrikaans. [ASC Leiden abstract] |
