Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2003. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Crime in South Africa is a common occurrence and crimes committed by
young people are rapidly becoming a serious problem. During the 19th and
zo" centuries, young offenders were institutionalised in reform schools for
example. However, social workers and probation officers realized that the
confinement in these schools caused frustration amongst the young offenders
and also encouraged further deviant behaviour.
In South Africa, the Department of Correctional Services implemented
community corrections, on 1 June 1993, as an alternative sentence option to
imprisonment. Community corrections have two distinctive forms, namely
correctional supervision and parole supervision. Correctional supervision is a
community-based sentence, which is prescribed by the courts and is served
within the community under strict supervision and control of correctional
officials and probation officers. The Department of Correctional Services
mainly implemented correctional supervision in order to divert young
offenders away from being exposed to the harsh and severe life of
incarceration.
The goal of the study was to explore correctional supervision as an alternative
sentence option and present a description of this sentence for the juvenile
delinquents. The objectives were to explore the juvenile offender's perception
of correctional supervision, the impact of this sentence on the offender's
family members and the availability and the role that the probation officers
play during the juvenile's sentence to correctional supervision.
The contents of the report focused on describing the phenomenon of juvenile
delinquency and other related topics, such as theories and contributing factors,
and correctional supervision as an alternative sentence option.
Exploratory-descriptive research was done and questionnaires were utilized
as instruments for data collection from the juvenile offenders, their family
members and the probation officers. The juvenile offenders were part of the
Department of Correctional Services' (Worcester) justice system and the
probation officers are employed at the Department.
Conclusions and recommendations are made regarding the respondents'
perceptions, opinions and experiences of the sentence of correctional
supervision. The proposed recommendations should be a guide for the
Department of Correctional Services in order to change certain factors that
contribute to the poor co-operation of juvenile offenders sentenced to
correctional supervision. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Misdaad in Suid-Afrika is 'n bekende verskynsel en misdaad gepleeg deur
jong mense is vinnig besig om 'n ernstige probleem te word. Gedurende die
neëntiende en twintigste eeu, is jeugoortreders na inrigtings, soos
byvoorbeeld verbeteringskole, gestuur. Maatskaplike werkers en
proefbeamptes het egter besef dat die afsondering in hierdie skole, frustrasies
veroorsaak en self verdere afwykende gedrag aanmoedig.
In Suid-Afrika, het die Departement van Korrektiewe Dienste
Gemeenskapskorreksies op 1 Junie 1993, as 'n alternatiewe vonnisopsie tot
gevangenisstraf, geïmplementeer. Gemeenskapskorreksies het twee
onderskeidende vorme, naamlik korrektiewe toesig en parooltoesig.
Korrektiewe toesig is 'n gemeenskapsgebaseerde vonnis, voorgeskryf deur
die howe, en word uitgedien in die gemeenskap onder streng supervisie en
beheer deur korrektiewe amptenare en proefbeamptes. Die Departement van
Korrektiewe Dienste het korrektiewe toesig hoofsaaklik geïmplementeer om
jong mense weg te wys van die onaangename blootsteling aan die
gevangenislewe.
Die doel van die studie was om korrektiewe toesig, as 'n alternatiewe
vonissopsie te verken en 'n beskrywing van hierdie vonnisopsie vir die
jeugoortreder te gee. Die doelwitte was om die jeugoortreder se persepsie
van korrektiewe toesig, die impak van dié vonnis op die oortreder se
gesinslede en die beskikbaarheid en rol van die proefbeampte tydens 'n
jeugdige se straf tot korrektiewe toesig, te verken.
Die inhoud van die verslag fokus op die beskrywing van die verskynsel van
jeugdelikwensie asook verbandhoudende onderwerpe, soos teorieë en
bydraende faktore, en korrektiewe toesig as 'n alternatiewe vonnisopsie.
'n Verkennende-beskrywende studie is gedoen met behulp van vraelyste, as
'n instrument van data insameling by die jeugoortreders, hul gesinslede en die
proefbeamptes. Die jeugoortreders was deel van die Departement van
Korrektiewe Dienste (Worcester) se regstelsel en die proefbeamptes is
werksaam by die Departement.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:sun/oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/53418 |
| Date | 12 1900 |
| Creators | Apollis, Hazel Charlene |
| Contributors | Green, S., Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences. Dept. of Social Work. |
| Publisher | Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | en_ZA |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | 126 p. |
| Rights | Stellenbosch University |
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