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Research Articles (Social Work and Criminology): Recent submissions
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(University of Stellenbosch, Department of Social Work, 2022)This qualitative study explores and describes the resilience of homeless older persons in the City of Tshwane, South Africa. Eleven participants, recruited purposively, participated in photovoice activities supplemented ...
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(Sage, 2023-09)This paper examines whether and how religion contributes to prisoner rehabilitation—conceptualized as a prosocial change in self-identity, existential belief, and character based on identity theories of criminal desistance, ...
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(Taylor and Francis, 2024)COVID-19 had a significant impact on older South Africans’ experience of social support. This cross-sectional study explored possible risk and protective factors of social support among community-dwelling older adults ...
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(Unisa Press, 2022-10)Social work in Namibia is practised in a context marked by extreme levels of poverty and socio-economic inequalities. These interrelated challenges remain deeply entrenched despite several development efforts at national, ...
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Multidimensional poverty in informal settlements in Windhoek, Namibia, and Orange Farm, South Africa (Michigan Publishing Services, 2020)The goal of the study was to explore and compare the multidimensional nature of poverty in informal settlements in Windhoek, Namibia, and Orange Farm, South Africa. The study employed a mixed methods research design that ...
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(National Association of Social Workers Zimbabwe, 2022-08)For decades, African researchers relied on Eurocentric concepts, models, philosophies, ethics, designs, and methods ingrained in the European research literature. The indiscriminate use of Eurocentric concepts to conceive ...
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(African Center for Research and Information on Substance Abuse, 2022)Substance Use Disorder (SUD) is a persistent and global public health and social problem. This scoping review explores and describes the impact that Substance Use Disorders (SUDs) have on families and carers. It draws on ...
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(Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2023-06)Please read abstract in the article.
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(Taylor and Francis, 2022-09-15)Occupational stress is rampant across various professions. The process of murder case investigation culminates in a plethora of challenges, including mental health concerns among murder detectives, which can trigger ...
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(Emerald, 2023-11)PURPOSE : This paper aims to shift from the male offender perspective in attempts to explore the stories and lived experiences of five females on parole in Nelson Mandela Bay, as most correctional research in South Africa ...
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(Sage, 2023-01)This paper examines whether religion contributes to offenders taking responsibility for crimes. Specifically, we assessed whether participation in The Prisoner’s Journey (TPJ), a bible study program, increased or decreased ...
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(AOSIS, 2022-01-27)BACKGROUND : For many years, the lived experiences, knowledge systems and histories of previously colonised people have been misinterpreted, removed and devalued in university teaching. The present curricula of African ...
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(Routledge, 2023)Emigration is increasingly becoming a reality for South Africans. To date, research on emigration has largely focused on the economic effect and the associated loss of expertise on the country. To a lesser degree research ...
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(Wiley, 2023-01)The aim of the study was to investigate the offence characteristics and motivations for revenge filicides. Revenge filicide is an act where one parent kills their own offspring for retribution to hurt and upset the other ...
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(Department of Social Work, Stellenbosch University, 2022)Placement of children in alternative care is supposed to be a temporary and not a permanent arrangement. In the absence of a family reunification model in South Africa, most children stay for longer periods in alternative ...
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(Routledge, 2021)Privileges of race and gender remain characteristic of the South African landscape despite the end of apartheid in 1994. Little is known in the country about race and gender (in)equalities in the production and dissemination ...
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(University of Stellenbosch, Department of Social Work, 2021)South Africa bears the largest burden of children living with HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa. These children battle with multiple vulnerabilities in their lives. This qualitative study explored the roles of ten purposively ...
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(University of Stellenbosch, Department of Social Work, 2021)This article is based on the findings of a qualitative study that explored the Vatsonga people’s perceptions of children’s rights to protection. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 40 community-based participants ...
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(University of Pretoria, Department of Political Sciences, 2021)In 2019, the murders of five homeless men in Pretoria drew attention to the vulnerability of people living on the street. Despite more than two decades of democracy, social injustices and inequality continue to characterise ...
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(Unisa Press, 2021-03)Caring for and protecting vulnerable children in foster care continues to be an important realisation of the rights of children in South Africa. The weakening of the extended family and the increasing number of orphaned ...
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