The monograph reports on a research project undertaken to establish how effective South African border control mechanisms are in preventing the illegal smuggling or movement of firearms across South Africa's international land borders. The research consisted of an analysis of the existing border controls initiatives, an analysis of two case studies of border areas ...

Police dockets provide one of the few comprehensive sources of information from which to draw a broad range of data on firearm-related crimes. In this research, it was found that docket analysis as a source was limited by the incomplete evidence contained in police dockets. The challenge of the exercise became an attempt to understand the nature of firearm-related...