Crimes that are motivated by prejudice or bias towards certain personal characteristics of the victim are commonly referred to as “hate crimes”. Such criminal conduct is said to cause greater harms than criminal conduct ...

This article, which is the first of a two-part submission, examines the phenomenon of gender-based violence against black lesbian South Africans. The course and incidence of gender-based violence against black lesbians ...

Criminal conduct motivated by bias or prejudice towards certain personal characteristics of the victim is also referred to as ‘hate crime’. Hate crimes were first recognised as a separate category of criminal conduct in ...

The article focuses on the implementation of the Domestic Violence Act (Act 116 of 1998) at the Johannesburg Family Court for the period March to December 2004 by examining a sample of case files. The author examines who ...

Several calls, from a wide spectrum of sectors for the enactment of hate-crime legislation in South Africa, suggest that there is limited knowledge about the theoretical underpinnings of this area of criminal law and of ...

In die strafreg word motief beskou as die rede, gedagte of idee wat onderliggend aan die pleeg van ʼn misdaad is. In moderne Westerse strafregstelsels word in die algemeen aanvaar dat die motief van die misdadiger irrelevant ...