Crime and Criminals: Is locking them up the only solution?

DATE: Thursday 22 November 2007
VENUE: TH Barry Theatre, Iziko Museum of South Africa, Queen Victoria St, Cape Town

TIME: 6pm – 8pm
Refreshments will be served from 6pm – 6.30pm

RSVP: wolpetrust@mweb.co.za / Tel: 021 674 0361

• Antony Altbeker - Antony worked for the Ministry of Safety and Security between 1994 and 1998 monitoring police performance. Since then, he has held a senior position in the National Treasury’s Protection Services team and been a senior researcher at the Institute for Security Studies and Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation. Antony is now freelancing, though he continues to work largely on issues of crime and justice. He has recently authored A Country At War With Itself in which he explores South Africa’s crime problem. Antony has an honours in political studies and a masters in economics, both from Wits.
• Jean Redpath - Jean works as an independent research consultant, predominantly in the criminal justice field. Jean was formerly a researcher at the Institute for Human Rights and Criminal Justice Studies at Technikon SA, and prior to that a parliamentary analyst for the South African Institute of Race Relations. She has a BSc. in Mathematics and Chemistry, and an LLB, from the University of Cape Town, and has been admitted as an attorney in the Cape High Court. Jean is co-author of a major new analysis of crime trends, to be published by New Africa Books in 2008.

The debate will be chaired by MR NEIL HORNE , independent analyst

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