Criminology and Forensic Studies Discipline (CFSD): Assignment Help Semester 1 2021

 STUDENTS CAN OBTAIN ASSISTANCE WITH WRITING THEIR ASSIGNMENTS BY EMAILING THE FOLLOWING:

• COLLEGE OF LAW AND MANAGEMENT:
  • Ms Serrenta Naidoo                           Naidoos2@ukzn.ac.za
• COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES:
  • Ms Liberty Taurai Mambondiani         MambodianiL@ukzn.ac.za
• COLLEGE OF AES:
  • Mr Godfrey Marumure                        Marumureg@ukzn.ac.za

EBOOKS CAN BE FOUND BY SEARCHING THE EBOOKS TABS ON THE LIBRARY WEBPAGE

PLEASE REMEMBER TO HAVE GLOBAL PROTECT ON YOUR MACHINES FOR SEAMLESS ACCESS TO ELECTRONIC RESOURCES

• EBOOK COLLECTIONS
• FREE E-RESOURCES

HELPFUL EBOOK AND JOURNAL TITLES

• Research methods in criminal justice and criminology
• Environmental criminology : spatial analysis and regional issues
• Proceedings of the 2014 APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime).
• Liquid criminology : doing imaginative criminological research
• Research ethics in criminology : dilemmas, issues and solutions
• Contemporary criminology in practice in South Africa
• The encyclopedia of crime and punishment
• Putting Crime in its Place : Units of Analysis in Geographic Criminology.
• Research methods in criminal justice and criminology (sign in)
• Research proposals : a guide to success

HELP WITH YOUR LITERATURE REVIEW AND PROPOSAL WRITING

• Conducting a literature Review - Dr Peter Rule
• Designing your first research proposal : a manual for beginning researchers
• Books to help you with you literature review
• Analysing a literature review
• Research proposals : a guide to success
• Criminology
• Assignment writing

HELPFUL PRINT TITLES

(CHAPTERS CAN BE SCANNED VIA YOUR LECTURER OR BORROWED USING YOUR LIBRARY ACCOUNT)

• An introduction to criminological theory
• Fundamentals of research in criminology and criminal justice
• Criminology : theory, research, and policy
• Criminological theory : a text/reader
• The Oxford handbook of criminology
• Basics of research methods for criminal justice and criminology
• Understanding and using statistics for criminology and criminal justice
• Criminological theory : a text/reader

HELP WITH REFERENCING AND SEARCHING THE VARIOUS DATABASES TO SOURCE LITERATURE

UKZN online library training 2021

JOURNAL ARTICLES WEB-LINKS AND VIDEOS TO SUPPORT YOUR PROPOSAL

• Ontological and epistemological foundations of qualitative research
• Advancing science research in criminal justice
• Mix method research in Criminology
• Synthesis over analysis: Towards the ontology for volume crime simulation
• Sociological theories of crime
• How well do criminologists explain crime
• Criminological theory and crime explanation
• Theories of crime
• Criminological Theories - OUP
• Major crime theory and how they affect policy
• Developmental theories of crime and juvenile delinquency
• Research at Grass Roots : For the Social Sciences and Human Service Professions, A.S. de Vos (editor), H. Strydom, C.B. Fouché and C.S.L. Delport : book review
• Situational opportunity theories of crime
• Criminological Theory ScienceDirect
• Review Essay: Liberal Criminal Theory
• It's nature and nurture: Integrating biology and genetics into the social learning theory of criminal behavior
• Functionalist views of crime and deviance
• Major concepts and theories
• Criminological theories
• South African crime compilation 2020

EBOOKS CAN BE FOUND BY SEARCHING THE EBOOKS TABS ON THE LIBRARY WEBPAGE

PLEASE REMEMBER TO HAVE GLOBAL PROTECT ON YOUR MACHINES FOR SEAMLESS ACCESS TO ELECTRONIC RESOURCES

• EBOOK COLLECTIONS
• FREE E-RESOURCES

BELOW ARE A FEW EBOOK TITLES

• CURRENT PERSPECTIVES IN FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY AND CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR                                                                             (BARTOL- 2019 EDITION - DOWNLOAD 100 PAGES AT A TIME)
• Contemporary criminology in practice in South Africa
• Assignment writing
• Inanda’s perceptions on the African context of parenting and its effects on crime among the youth in Inanda Township, KwaZulu-Natal
• An exploration of physical violence at a secondary school in Inanda, KwaZulu-Natal
• Rural Crime and Community Safety
• Routledge Handbook of Crime Science
  YOU MAY USE THE FOLLOWING LINKS TO SEARCH FOR CRIME STATISTICS
• Department of Community Safety and Liaison (KZN)
• National Department of Correctional Services
• Department of Social Development
• HSRC
• OECD South Africa
• Crime Stats South Africa
• SAPS Crime Stats

YOU MAY USE THE FOLLOWING WEBSITES FOR INFORMATION (CLICK LINKS BELOW)

• Causes of crime in South Africa
• Crime in South Africa: What’s going wrong?
• Why is crime and violence so high in South Africa?
• Poverty the root cause of crime
• Why is crime and violence so high in South Africa?
• http://www.crimestatssa.com/
• http://www.oecd.org/southafrica/
• http://www.saps.gov.za/resource_centre/publications/statistics/crimestats/2014/crime_stats.php
• https://www.issafrica.org/crimehub/stats
• Africa check
• http://www.news24.com/Tags/Topics/crime_stats
• http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/INFOGRAPHIC-SA-Crime-stats-2015-20150929
• Understanding crime statistics in SA – what you need to know
• Report shows many crime victims in South Africa don’t trust police
• Post Mandela: South Africa faces widespread security crisis
• Documentary: Crime in South Africa

 THE FOLLOWING YOUTUBE VIDEOS CAN BE VIEWED THAT DEAL WITH THE TOPIC OF CRIME IN SOUTH AFRICA

Crime in South Africa

Brutal crimes in South Africa linked to pink people causing cruel poverty by owning all

Is crime in South Africa worse since Apartheid?

Cape Town: Gangs, Race and Poverty 20 years after Apartheid

FOR HELP ON HOW TO SEARCH DIFFERENT DATABASES, THE ICATALOGUE AND REFERENCING CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW FOR MORE REMOTE SUPPORT

UKZN online library training 2021

PLEASE ENGAGE MEMBERS FROM THE WRITING PLACE TO ASSIST YOU WITH YOUR ASSIGNMENTS

YOU MAY USE THE FOLLOWING JOURNAL AND NEWSPAPER SOURCES ARTICLES TO SUPPLEMENT YOUR WRITING

• Contextual perspectives of election violence in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
• Surviving the transition : trends and perceptions of crime in South Africa
• Why crime is threatening the democratic system of South Africa
• The determinants of crime in South Africa
• Africa Research bulletin
• Unhappiness and Crime: Evidence from South Africa
• A panel data ananlysis of crime in South Africa
• A quantitative analysis of female crime trends in Gauteng SA
• Characteristics of violent crime in SA
• Crime statistics 2018/2019
• Puzzling statistic Is SA the crime capital?
• The validity of official crime statistics An empirical investigation
• The reliability of violent crime statistics

• Crime statistics an independant review

• Learning to be lost Youth crime in SA
• Crime and local inequality in South Africa
• Taxi violence in South Africa : insight from Mpumalanga Township, Kwazulu-Natal Province, South Africa
• Are Uniform Crime Reports a Valid Indicator of the Index Crimes
• Worrying trends the official 2008- 09 South African crime statistics Reliability of Criminal Statistics
• News values, ethics and violence in KwaZulu-Natal : has media coverage reformed?
• Voting and violence in KwaZulu-Natal's no-go areas : coercive mobilisation and territorial control in post-conflict elections
• Crime Statistics 2017/2018 - finding the truth in the complicated business of crime stats and the public’s perceptions about crime
• Statement of validity assessment
• Sex offences high, more women report cases