Prosecution task force on car-hijacking: final evaluation report
Resources 2013-09-11
Summary:
When a wave of violent car-hijackings in South Africa made headlines around the world several years ago, the nation's justice system was unable to adequately handle this new category of crime. Cases took seven to nine months to finalize, and the conviction rate in Johannesburg was under 10 percent. Then, in March 1999, the National Directorate of Public Prosecutions created the Prosecution Task Force on Car-Hijacking in collaboration with Vera's South African Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA).