STILL MARGINAL: Crime in the coloured community
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17159/2413-3108/2004/i7a1047Keywords:
crime, Western cape, Northern Cape, race, South AfricaAbstract
Is the crime problem in the Western Cape and the Northern Cape rooted in the coloured population? Official figures suggest that coloured people are twice as likely as any other ethnic group to be murdered, and twice as likely to be incarcerated. Unfortunately, it is impossible to properly explore the linkage between the crime rates in the Cape and the coloured communities without station-level crime statistics, which the police no longer release to the public. Nevertheless, more research is needed to understand the links between this group and the crime problem.
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