Geographical information systems (GIS) and policing in South Africa: a review

Breetzke, Gregory Dennis

doi:10.1108/13639510610711628

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“…Second, we used official crime data to measure burglary. Using police data to measure crime has well-known limitations, particularly in South Africa (see Breetzke, 2006;Breetzkeand Horn, 2008).…”

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confidence: 99%

Is it safer behind the gates? Crime and gated communities in South Africa

Breetzke

Landman

Cohn

2013

J Hous and the Built Environ

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Gated communities have long been seen as a rational response to rising crime levels, yet very little is known about the extent to which residing in a gated community actually reduces an individuals" risk of criminal victimisation. In this study we use location quotients tocompare the extent of burglary in gated communities with burglary across the entire city of Tshwane, South Africa as well as compare burglary in gated communities with burglary occurring within a series of buffer intervals immediately surrounding these communities. Finally, we identify what physical characteristics of gated communities differentiate between high and low burglary in these enclaves. Prior to expectations we found that gated communities (and theirimmediate surrounding areas) are associated with increased levels of burglary. There are 2 however, a number ofphysical characteristics of gated communities which are associated with much lower burglary levels.The implications of our work from a crime prevention and development planning perspective are discussed.

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Section: Limitationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Is it safer behind the gates? Crime and gated communities in South Africa

Breetzke

Landman

Cohn

2013

J Hous and the Built Environ

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“…The community maps are used for development and relief efforts by the Kenyan government (Craner, 2012). In South Africa, although researchers have recognised the potential of web platforms (Breetzke, 2006;Budhathoki & Nedovic-Budic 2008) and Community Based Organisations (CBOs) have actively engaged in community related GIS research, little has been in done in the utilisation of online platforms. Chirowodza et al (2009) used PGIS as a tool in order to understand and inform community-based HIV intervention studies in four case study areas located in Zimbabwe, Tanzania and South Africa.…”

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A participatory web map service: the case of Theewaterskloof Dam

Musungu¹,

Jacobs²

2015

SA J of Geomatics

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“…In support of this aim, in 2001 the SAPS began to distribute statistical mapping software and hardware to the priority stations idendfied by the NCCS plan, including Hillbrow (Breetzke, 2006), and lower level officials began to deploy this technology in their everyday work.…”

Section: The Emergence Of Calculative Territoriality In Hillbrowmentioning

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The Contours of Disorder: Crime Maps and Territorial Policing in South Africa

Vigneswaran

2014

Environ Plan D

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Organised vioience strongly shapes political boundaries. The modern state's monopoly on legitimate violence has made national borders the primary dividing line between peaceful and violent places. However, governments that are unable to achieve such a monopoiy may opt for the more modest goal of moderating the distribution of violent behaviour across their jurisdiction. This paper explores how this latter approach redefines the contours of political space through a grounded ethnography of crime control strategies in Johannesburg, South Africa. In the postapartheid era. South African police and vigilantes have synthesised statistically oriented policing logics with the racial policing tactics of the past to anticipate, locate, isolate, and redistribute patterns of violent crime. In so doing, they have created forms of territorial power and violence that are neither new nor old, but undeniably postsovereign.

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Geographical information systems (GIS) and policing in South Africa: a review

Abstract: Un ni iv ve er rs si it ty y o of f P Pr re et to or ri ia a e et td d-B Br re ee et tz zk ke e, , G G D D ((2 20 00 08 8))

Cited by 27 publications

References 58 publications

Is it safer behind the gates? Crime and gated communities in South Africa

Is it safer behind the gates? Crime and gated communities in South Africa

A participatory web map service: the case of Theewaterskloof Dam

The Contours of Disorder: Crime Maps and Territorial Policing in South Africa

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