Economic diplomacy and political leadership: An alternative foreign policy vision for South Africa

The article suggests that strategies for African engagement can no longer take sweeping views of the continent but need to differentiate policy responses. It also suggests that the real key to improving Africa lies with African leadership rather than external agencies and assistance.     

Surveying the terrain: Current issues in the prevention and management of sexually abusive behaviour by males

Abstract

This paper focuses on critical issues and challenges concerning five areas: the prevention of sexually aggressive behaviour; inter-agency collaboration; groupwork programmes for adult offenders; eligibility levels regarding services for adolescent offenders; and professional issues.

Key messages which emerge are: the need to prevent punitive parenting in early childhood; the importance of healthy intra-agency processes as a foundation for effective inter-agency working; ensuring careful selection of clients for groupwork programmes; developing a tiered set of service thresholds for adolescent offenders; and the need to sustain the emotional responsiveness of staff.     

Evolutionary behavioural science and crime: Aetiological and intervention implications

In this paper, we argue that evolutionary behavioural science can be fruitfully applied to the explanation of criminal behaviour and subsequent interventions with offenders based on this understanding. First, we provide a brief overview of evolutionary theory and the three main approaches applied to the social and behavioural sciences, human behavioural ecology, evolutionary psychology, and gene‐culture co‐evolution theory. Second, we examine two examples of crimes that have been approached from an evolutionary standpoint, psychopathy, and rape. Third, we discuss four implications of adopting an evolutionary behavioural perspective for therapeutic and prevention work with offenders.     

The modern holy shroud

Testimonies disclosed that a 44-year-old pedestrian was struck head-on by a truck while she was roaming on the motorway; at the time of collision, the truck was travelling at a speed of about 90 km/h. In the second phase of the collision, the pedestrian was projected about 100 m before her body was run over by the truck and then by a car. The autopsy revealed extensive mutilations, making it impossible to verify the testimonies of witnesses to the collision as regards the pedestrian's position at the moment of the first impact. However, the reports produced by the technical expert and the forensic pathologist were able to confirm the testimonies, based on an impact zone on the front panel of the cab of the truck, where part of the pedestrian's face was reproduced like a "modern holy shroud".