Media

Lisa Vetten South Africa does not yet understand much about the relationship between poverty and crime. About the closest we ever come is the 'poverty-and-violence-causes-crime' thesis. However, this explanation ...

Steinberg, J. (2000). Taxi protest raises questions, Business Day, 21 February. Read more... (external link)

Lisa Vetten Recent news reports have highlighted research around rape by sociobiologists Randy Thornhill and Craig Palmer. Their claim about the cause of rape is controversial indeed. Essentially, they state ...

Steinberg, J. (2000). Tshwete is no Rudolph Giuliani, Business Day, 8 February. Read more... (external link)

Lisa Vetten Nineteen ninety-nine was the year we discovered that a rape in South Africa doesn't occur every 17 seconds, every 23 seconds, every 25 seconds or even every 83 ...

Steinberg, J. (2000). Irate Tshwete playing to the crowd, Business Day, 7 January. Read more... (external link)