Thesis (M.A. Information Studies (Electronic Records Management)) -- University of Limpopo, 2021 / There is a strong argument for a direct link between records management and delivery of justice to citizens in that to an extent that a country is ready to embrace information and communication technology (ICT), the lower the level of corruption in that country. This study investigated the role of electronic records management for effective delivery of justice in Limpopo Province police stations (LPPS) with the adoption of the exploratory survey research design based on quantitative and qualitative research approaches. The study adopted a pragmatic worldview to sample 100 police detective officers and 6 records managers with a 65% response rate in Lebowakgomo and Mankweng clusters of Limpopo province with the use of questionnaire and interview as data collection instruments. The study analysed quantitative data through SPSS for Windows while adopting Thematic Analysis for qualitative data. This study found that the LPPS had inadequate human resource and ICT infrastructure capacity for effective electronic records management and delivery of justice to citizens; that e-docket system had a positive impact in enhancing electronic records management, specifically with 24hour access and timely sharing of records; that poor internet connection emerged as the most prominent challenge faced when managing records; and that monitoring of the e-docket system and increased human resource and ICT infrastructure capacity could improve electronic records management. The study made the following recommendations in order to enable effective delivery of justice to citizens through electronic records management in LPPS: that there be minimum training requirements for those working with records in order to cultivate a culture of appreciating proper records management; that police stations be provided with enough computers with adequate network capacity; that a qualified records manager be appointed to administrate the management of records; and that offsite backup be implemented to ensure system recovery in case of disaster. / National Research Foundation (NRF)

Le toponyme de la Rivière de l’Ouest apparaît au cours de la XVIIIème dynastie et constitue la référence en matière de production vinicole jusqu’à la période ramesside. Après un hiatus d’à peu près 150 ans, il réapparait au cours de la deuxième moitié du règne de Ramsès II, pour finalement disparaître définitivement durant la XXème dynastie. Les sources textuelles prises en compte dans le cadre de cette étude sont uniquement celles inscrites sur les étiquettes d’amphores. Elles proviennent, pour la plupart d’entre elles, des sites d’Amarna, de Malkata et de Deir el Medina. L’étude de ce toponyme permet donc une ouverture sur un champ géographique et chronologique très large. Elle embrasse de même un ample panel de thèmes tel que l’organisation de la production du vin, la production des amphores, ou encore l’acheminement de celles-ci vers les lieux de consommation. Les axes de recherches empruntés ici sont à la fois archéologiques, épigraphiques, et archéométriques. La mise en parallèle des différentes données ouvre en effet la voie à un travail pluridisciplinaire par le biais duquel il est possible d’aborder sous un angle nouveau des problématiques telles que l’économie ou la politique. / The place-name of the western River appears during the XVIIIth dynasty and constitutes the reference regarding wine production until the Ramesside period. After a hiatus of about 150 years, it re-appears during the second half of the reign of Ramsès II, to finally disappear definitively during the XXth dynasty. The textual sources taken into account within the framework of this study are the ones only registered on the labels of amphorae. Most of these come from the sites of Amarna, Malkata and Deir el Medina. The study of this place-name thus allows an opening on a very wide geographical and chronological field. It also embraces a wide panel of themes such as the organization of the production of the wine, the production of amphorae, or still the routing of these towards the places of consumption. The axis of research borrowed here were at the same time archaeological, epigraphic, and archaeometrical. The putting in parallel of all these data opens the way to a multidisciplinary work by means of which it becomes possible to study, under a new angle, problems as wide as economy and politics

O presente ensaio acadêmico tem por escopo desenvolver tema interdisciplinar envolvendo a repercussão do princípio constitucional da segurança jurídica sobre a dinâmica da relação jurídico-tributária, bem como verificar se a jurisdição do Supremo Tribunal Federal, hoje revestida de mecanismos diretos de imposição do entendimento sedimentado às instâncias inferiores, cumpre adequadamente a função de garantir a certeza e a previsibilidade necessárias aos contribuintes. Para tanto, além de aprofundar o estudo do princípio da segurança jurídica, o ensaio perfaz a estrutura da obrigação tributária e as condições impostas ao procedimento administrativo fiscal, até desaguar nas características do exercício da jurisdição pelo Excelso Pretório. Ao final, propõe-se um roteiro metódico a ser adotado pelo STF nas hipóteses em que suas decisões possam violar a segurança jurídica dos contribuintes. / Legal security is a judgment ongoing concern, and requires some predictability in all moments of law construction: in its development by the Legislative, in the administrative and the Judiciary. The concept of legal security, however, has been reinterpreted because of the liberal state ideas that have been left behind by the Constitutional State. The present study investigates whether the Brazilian Federal Constitution with its new mechanisms (binding docket, general repercussion, and binding effect, abstrativization of the diffuse control) provides legal security, according to this its current concept. In conclusion, after a dialectical and hypothetical-deductive analysis, that these institutes play this role, not only in the strict legality meaning but also respecting the value justice. Despite of the rational character, because they impose decisions to the administration and the Judiciary and generate uniform judgments, but more automatic, they are also able to provide relativization of absolute predictability in favor of \"fair\" value when necessary to achieve a constitutionally guaranteed right.

O presente ensaio acadêmico tem por escopo desenvolver tema interdisciplinar envolvendo a repercussão do princípio constitucional da segurança jurídica sobre a dinâmica da relação jurídico-tributária, bem como verificar se a jurisdição do Supremo Tribunal Federal, hoje revestida de mecanismos diretos de imposição do entendimento sedimentado às instâncias inferiores, cumpre adequadamente a função de garantir a certeza e a previsibilidade necessárias aos contribuintes. Para tanto, além de aprofundar o estudo do princípio da segurança jurídica, o ensaio perfaz a estrutura da obrigação tributária e as condições impostas ao procedimento administrativo fiscal, até desaguar nas características do exercício da jurisdição pelo Excelso Pretório. Ao final, propõe-se um roteiro metódico a ser adotado pelo STF nas hipóteses em que suas decisões possam violar a segurança jurídica dos contribuintes. / Legal security is a judgment ongoing concern, and requires some predictability in all moments of law construction: in its development by the Legislative, in the administrative and the Judiciary. The concept of legal security, however, has been reinterpreted because of the liberal state ideas that have been left behind by the Constitutional State. The present study investigates whether the Brazilian Federal Constitution with its new mechanisms (binding docket, general repercussion, and binding effect, abstrativization of the diffuse control) provides legal security, according to this its current concept. In conclusion, after a dialectical and hypothetical-deductive analysis, that these institutes play this role, not only in the strict legality meaning but also respecting the value justice. Despite of the rational character, because they impose decisions to the administration and the Judiciary and generate uniform judgments, but more automatic, they are also able to provide relativization of absolute predictability in favor of \"fair\" value when necessary to achieve a constitutionally guaranteed right.

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Motivation This project was of specific importance to the private security industry, victims of residential burglary, community policing forums and the South African Police Service in providing detailed information regarding recommendations of how to manage and combat residential burglary in two selected northern suburbs of Johannesburg. Problem statement Residential burglary is categorised in the top three highest reported crimes according to the official South African Police Service statistics for the 2006/7 financial years. A series of victim interviews, docket analysis, case plotting and residential security audit surveys were conducted to determine the extent (or lack thereof) of security measures at a burgled residence in the selected area. Approach Field data was collected through docket analysis, plotting crime scenes (descriptive mapping), victim interviews and residential security audit surveys. Results The majority of victims of burglary interviewed did not have the minimum security system (integrated measures) in place. Those victims, who had security measures, appeared not to have made or implemented effective use of them. Conclusion Security at a residence extends beyond just the immediate house area and the focus (security risk assessment) should start with the immediate neighbourhood (community) area working inwards towards the property perimeter (boundary), inner perimeter (garden area) and then finally the immediate house area. / CRIMINOLOGY / MTECH: SECURITY RISK MAN

Motivation This project was of specific importance to the private security industry, victims of residential burglary, community policing forums and the South African Police Service in providing detailed information regarding recommendations of how to manage and combat residential burglary in two selected northern suburbs of Johannesburg. Problem statement Residential burglary is categorised in the top three highest reported crimes according to the official South African Police Service statistics for the 2006/7 financial years. A series of victim interviews, docket analysis, case plotting and residential security audit surveys were conducted to determine the extent (or lack thereof) of security measures at a burgled residence in the selected area. Approach Field data was collected through docket analysis, plotting crime scenes (descriptive mapping), victim interviews and residential security audit surveys. Results The majority of victims of burglary interviewed did not have the minimum security system (integrated measures) in place. Those victims, who had security measures, appeared not to have made or implemented effective use of them. Conclusion Security at a residence extends beyond just the immediate house area and the focus (security risk assessment) should start with the immediate neighbourhood (community) area working inwards towards the property perimeter (boundary), inner perimeter (garden area) and then finally the immediate house area. / CRIMINOLOGY / MTECH: SECURITY RISK MAN

In this research docket analysis is evaluated as an investigative tool in stranger rape cases. Owing to the fact that serial rapists mostly reside within the category of stranger rape cases, the researcher attempted to test the value of docket analysis in the identification of patterns and similarities among such cases which could be indicative of serial rape activity. A rape matrix was used as a docket analysis tool to analyse the content of 184 stranger rape cases which was closed as ‘undetected’. In addition to investigative shortcomings in the case dockets, the researcher identified 15 stranger rape cases which presented six unique patterns among them. These identified patterns could be indicative of serial rape activity. / Criminology / M.Tech. (Forensic Investigation)

The research question of this study is to determine what circumstances and conditions contribute to deaths in police cells. The study was undertaken in order to establish the causes of deaths in police cells and the factors which contribute thereto, as well as to determine the best international practices to prevent deaths in police cells. The literature was reviewed in order to establish the extent to which this phenomenon has been researched in South Africa and in other countries and to determine the regulatory framework related thereto. The researcher had collected data from the dockets relating to deaths in police cells which were kept at the IPID provincial offices in Gauteng and Limpopo. The data were collected by using the docket analysis schedule and were categorised into themes during the analysis process. Four cause of deaths in police cells were identified, namely, suicide, natural causes, assault by fellow detainees and injuries which were sustained prior to detention. Suicide is the leading cause of deaths. The second leading causes of deaths in police cells are natural causes and assault by fellow detainees. Deaths as a result of injuries sustained prior to detention came third. The most common ligatures which were used to commit suicide are shoe-laces, belts and strips torn from clothing and bedding items. The preferred ligature points are the burglar proof bars on cell windows. Booted feet and hands were the most common instruments used to inflict fatal injuries on the detainees. It was also found that police officials are generally not complying fully with the standing orders which regulate the management of people who are detained in police cells. The failure of police officials to comply fully with the standing orders on custody in police cells contributed to the deaths of detainees in police cells. Recommendations are made to prevent the deaths of detainees in police cells. / Police Practice / M. Tech. (Policing)