Date/Time
Date(s) - Thu - 03 Sep
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Categories
The UFC@DUT will be running its 22nd seminar on Thursday, the 3 September 2015.
Topic : Pushing the boundaries of community safety – breaking down barriers
Presenter: Tinus Kruger & Monique Marks
Date: 03 September 2015
Time: 12:00 to 13:30
Venue: ESBE Boardroom, L3, S4, S Block, Steve Biko Campus- Entrance from
gate 2.
About the Presentation
This seminar will focus on the link between urban design and community safety. Central to this presentation will be the ideas of crime prevention through environmental design. Part of the seminar will focus on two examples where the barriers (or walls) were literally broken down to create the opportunity for alternate designs to solid walls that enhance, rather than compromise, safety. The two cases are the Goethe Institute in Johannesburg and the Alliance Francaise in Durban (which is still in process).
About the Presenter
Tinus Kruger
Tinus is a principal researcher and the Research Group Leader of the Sustainable Human Settlements and Informatics Group at the CSIR in Pretoria. He is a registered architect specialising in Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED), focussing in particular crime prevention within the context of developing countries. He has been involved in various studies regarding the relationship between crime and the planning, design and management of the physical environment since 1998. He is also interested in situational crime prevention, crime science and participatory crime analysis processes.
Tinus has authored or co-authored a number of publications, including manuals for the SAPS such as Making South Africa Safe – A Manual for Community Based Crime Prevention, and Designing Safer Places – A Manual for Crime Prevention through Planning and Design. He is a director on the Board of the International CPTED Association (ICA) and has presented at various local and international conferences.
Monique Marks
Prof. Monique Marks currently heads up the newly established Urban Futures Centre at the Durban University of Technology (UFC@DUT). Initially trained as a social worker, she has a doctorate in Sociology from the University of Natal, and writes predominantly in the field of criminology. She has published widely in the areas of youth social movements, ethnographic research methods, police labour relations, police organizational change and security governance. She has published four books: Young Warriors: Youth Identity, Politics and Violence in South Africa; Transforming the Robocops: Changing Police in South Africa; and Police Occupational Culture: New Debates and Directions (edited with Anne-Marie Singh and Megan O’Neill) and Police Reform from the Bottom Up (edited with David Sklansky). She has also published over 45 peer reviewed articles and numerous reports. She sits on a number of journal editorial boards as well as the Board of Trustees of the Safer South Africa Foundation. She is a B-rated researcher, indicating that she has substantial international recognition. In her research work on security governance she has forged close relations with government, both local and national.
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