Full Text Available
Note: Clicking the button above will open the full text document at the original institutional repository in a new window.
Triggering and contributing socio-economic factors to aggravated robbery : the perspective of offenders at Baviaanspoort Maximum Correctional Centre
Dissertation (MSW)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
Saved in:
| Other Authors: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Thesis |
| Published: |
University of Pretoria
2013
|
| Subjects: | |
| Tags: |
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
| _version_ | 1867613669088559104 |
|---|---|
| access_status_str | Open Access |
| author2 | Lombard, A. (Antoinette) |
| author_browse | Lombard, A. (Antoinette) |
| author_facet | Lombard, A. (Antoinette) |
| collection | Thesis |
| dc_rights_str_mv | © 2011, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria |
| description | Dissertation (MSW)--University of Pretoria, 2012. |
| format | Thesis |
| id | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/24202 |
| institution | University of Pretoria (South Africa) |
| last_indexed | 2026-06-10T12:39:48.717Z |
| license_str | Other — see source repository |
| provenance_str_mv | Harvested via OAI-PMH from UPSpace — University of Pretoria Institutional Repository |
| publishDate | 2013 |
| publishDateRange | 2013 |
| publishDateSort | 2013 |
| publisher | University of Pretoria |
| publisherStr | University of Pretoria |
| record_format | dspace |
| source_str | UPSpace — University of Pretoria Institutional Repository |
| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/24202 Triggering and contributing socio-economic factors to aggravated robbery : the perspective of offenders at Baviaanspoort Maximum Correctional Centre Lombard, A. (Antoinette) julianam.may@dcs.gov.za May, Julianna Community integration Department of correctional services Socio-economic factors Aggravated robbery Offender Violent crime Social development Developmental approach Integrated development Rehabilitation programmes Interpersonal factors Intrapersonal factors UCTD Dissertation (MSW)--University of Pretoria, 2012. In South Africa all the major categories of violent crime (homicide, aggravated robbery, serious assault and rape) showed an increase during the early 2000s. More than half of the total offences that were committed in South Africa during 2005 were aggressive offences. The goal of the study was to explore the perception of offenders regarding the triggering and contributing socio-economic factors to aggravated robbery with a view to inform rehabilitation and re-integration programmes for these offenders. Within the context of the interrelatedness of socio-economic factors such as poverty, inequality, unemployment and human rights, developmental social welfare and its underpinning theory of social development was an appropriate theoretical framework for the study. A qualitative research approach was utilised for the study and data was gathered by means of semi-structured interviews. Respondents for the study included maximum-term offenders that were serving an imprisonment sentence for aggravated robbery. The research findings indicate a reciprocal relationship between poverty, inequality, unemployment, intoxicating substances and intra- and interpersonal factors as possible triggering and contributing factors to aggravated robbery. Unemployment, which is exacerbated by a lack of education and skills development and linked to intra- and interpersonal factors, appears to be a dominant socio-economic factor that could contribute to or trigger aggravated robbery. The study concluded that rehabilitation programmes still lack a holistic, integrated developmental approach and hence do not prepare ex-offenders for full integration into society. The Department of Correctional Services was pointed out as a significant role-player in facilitating rehabilitation programmes that include skills development for job creation in a holistic, integrated developmental manner. Recommendations include that the Department of Correctional Services should seek partnerships and closer working relations with external service providers, and develop and implement integrated developmental rehabilitation programmes that will facilitate the creation of productive economic opportunities for offenders while they are still incarcerated and once they have been released back into the community. Social Work and Criminology unrestricted 2013-09-06T16:55:41Z 2012-01-25 2013-09-06T16:55:41Z 2011-09-08 2012-01-25 2012-01-19 Dissertation May, J 2011, Triggering and contributing socio-economic factors to aggravated robbery : the perspective of offenders at Baviaanspoort Maximum Correctional Centre, MSW dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24202 > F11/9/297/gm http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24202 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-01192012-112459/ © 2011, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Community integration Department of correctional services Socio-economic factors Aggravated robbery Offender Violent crime Social development Developmental approach Integrated development Rehabilitation programmes Interpersonal factors Intrapersonal factors UCTD Triggering and contributing socio-economic factors to aggravated robbery : the perspective of offenders at Baviaanspoort Maximum Correctional Centre |
| title | Triggering and contributing socio-economic factors to aggravated robbery : the perspective of offenders at Baviaanspoort Maximum Correctional Centre |
| title_full | Triggering and contributing socio-economic factors to aggravated robbery : the perspective of offenders at Baviaanspoort Maximum Correctional Centre |
| title_fullStr | Triggering and contributing socio-economic factors to aggravated robbery : the perspective of offenders at Baviaanspoort Maximum Correctional Centre |
| title_full_unstemmed | Triggering and contributing socio-economic factors to aggravated robbery : the perspective of offenders at Baviaanspoort Maximum Correctional Centre |
| title_short | Triggering and contributing socio-economic factors to aggravated robbery : the perspective of offenders at Baviaanspoort Maximum Correctional Centre |
| title_sort | triggering and contributing socio economic factors to aggravated robbery the perspective of offenders at baviaanspoort maximum correctional centre |
| topic | Community integration Department of correctional services Socio-economic factors Aggravated robbery Offender Violent crime Social development Developmental approach Integrated development Rehabilitation programmes Interpersonal factors Intrapersonal factors UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24202 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-01192012-112459/ |