Essays about: "crime in Africa"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 30 essays containing the words crime in Africa.

  1. 1. Human Trafficking in Gauteng, South Africa : How do socio-economic factors influence the vulnerability of women to engage in sexual services and potential trafficking in Gauteng, South Africa?

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Linnéa Lundqvist; [2024]
    Keywords : Human Trafficking; exploitation; socio-economic; GBV; corruption;

    Abstract : This research aims to investigate how socio-economic factors influence the vulnerability of women to engage in sexual services and potential trafficking in Gauteng, South Africa. This province is South Africa’s most prosperous one with an enormous flow of migrants and is therefore of interest to investigate. READ MORE

  3. 2. Corporate impunity and the ‘accountability gap’ in Sub-Saharan Africa: is the successful prosecution of corporate involvement in atrocity crimes within reach?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten; Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Joseph Keogh; [2022]
    Keywords : International criminal law; corporate criminal liability; transnational corporations; atrocity crime; corporate impunity; Africa; Global North; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Although transnational corporations (hereinafter TNCs) often far outmatch States in terms of resources and influence over the direction of the world economy, they are generally unaccounted for when operating outside the territories in which they are incorporated (hereinafter ‘home States’). This thesis will look specifically at those TNCs that rely on natural resource extraction as their main source of profit. READ MORE

  4. 3. Left without protection : A study on how honour-related violence and oppression is being problematised in Swedish public policy

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för Asien- och Mellanösternstudier (IAM)

    Author : Margrét Gudmundsdottir; [2022]
    Keywords : Honour; honour-violence; oppression; policy documents; problem representation; intersectionality; women; Middle East and North Africa; isolation; subordination.;

    Abstract : In June 2022, a new law will be implemented in the Swedish legal system, making honour- violence a certain crime. Before the new law has been implemented, investigations have been made by government officials trying to present how honour-related violence and oppression is a problem in the Swedish society. READ MORE

  5. 4. Sustainable Use: A Contentious Promise - A Case Study on International Funding of Consumptive Sustainable Wildlife Use in South Africa's Biodiversity Economy

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Mara Glas; [2022]
    Keywords : biodiversity economy; sustainable use; international conservation finance; community-based conservation; economic development; wildlife economics; South Africa; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : In South Africa, sustainable use of wildlife is widely recognized as providing economic incentives and actively engaging rural communities in conservation management. Aiming to combat rampant poverty and wildlife crime in communities around protected areas (PAs), the country’s biodiversity economy envisions to scale (non-)consumptive activities in the pursuit of creating economically and environmentally viable wildlife businesses. READ MORE

  6. 5. Raising children in the midst of gang crime : A minor field study in South Africa

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för pedagogik och lärande (PEL)

    Author : Mirjam Einarsson; Jennifer Ljungkrantz; [2022]
    Keywords : Caregivers; Cape Flats; South Africa; Gangsterism; Risk and protective factors; Social initiatives;

    Abstract : The purpose of this field study is; through caregivers' description of their community, to gaina greater understanding of caregivers' experiences of raising children in areas with high gang crime in the Cape Flats, South Africa. This is achieved through ethnography and qualitative interviews with six caregivers. READ MORE