Africa has been at the forefront of developments in international criminal justice. Several initiatives have targeted those responsible for serious human rights violations: the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the Special Court for Sierra Leone as well as the cases involving Hissene Habre, Colonel Mengitsu Haile Mariam and Charles Taylor. At the politica...

This monograph presents the findings of a life history study funded by the Open Society Foundation for South Africa and undertaken as a partnership between the Institute for Security Studies and the Department of Correctional Services from 2010 to 2015. It does so through relating the life stories of offenders who have been incarcerated for violent crimes. It descr...