Summary CMY3706 Assignment_1 Contemporary Criminological Issues

UNISA Department of Criminology and Security Science Contemporary Criminological Issues CMY3706 Module/course: CMY3706 Semester: 2 Assignment: 1 1 Index 1. Introduction ………………………………...…………………………….……….…3 2. Definitions of key concepts ……………………………………………………...…4 3. Causes and motives ………………………………………………………….…….5 3. 1 Avoiding arrest ………………………………………………………………...……5 3. 2 Theft of police service pistols ………………………………………….…….……5 3. 3 Inadequate training …………………………………………………………………6 3. 4 Corruption ……………………………………………………………………...……7 3. 5 Domestic violence ……………………………………………………………….…7 4. Modus operandi of police attackers ………………………………………………8 5. How to prevent police killings ……………………………………………….….….8 6. Conclusion…………………………………………………………………….…….9 7. List of references ………………………………………………………...….…….10 2 1. Introduction This assignment is based on Contemporary Criminological Issues. The assignment is an essay-type question, where the student should discuss the motives and causes for the attacks of and murder of police officers also the modus operandi used by perpetrators to attack and kill police officers and how prevention methods can be put in place to curb this type of crimes in South Africa. One issue that has been of particular concern in South Africa over the last few years has, been the high number of violent incidents in which members of the SAPS have been killed. According to the Mail Guardian newspaper on the tenth of June 2015 stated that South Africa is much more violent than the US. According to Mail & Guardian research, statistics shows that, South Africa is a more dangerous place to be a police official compared to other countries. “Seventy-seven officers killed in the line of duty in 2013 compared with a hundred and seven in the United States. Corrected for population, South African cops [police officials] are six