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Violent Crimes Against Children 2004- 2008 |
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| Figure 1: Crimes Against Children Under the Age of 18 Years: 2006/2007 and 2007/2008 |
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* The implementation of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act, Act 32 of 2007 on 16 December 2007 resulted in changes to the definitions of certain sexual offences (inter alia providing for male rape, which was previously recorded under indecent assault). This has an impact on the statistics pertaining to sexual offences. The statistics reflected in the table above with regard to Rape and Indecent Assault thus only have a bearing on the period April to December of the different financial years under review to allow for some sort of comparison.
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Figure 1:indicates a significant increase in the murder of children between 2006/2007 and 2007/2008. The number of children murdered, increased by 22.4% and the number of those falling victim to attempted murder increased by 13.7%. South African Police Services emphasize, howeber, that these increases are based on low numerical values. The remainder of the contact crimes against children reportedly decreased during this period.
Source: The South African Police Service:
http://www.saps.gov.za/statistics/reports/crimestats/2008/docs/introduction2008.pdf
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The 2006 victimisation study conducted by the Centre for Justice and Crime Prevention found that, in total, 41.4% of young respondents had experienced some form of victimisation in the year preceding the study. This is a rate almost double that of adult South Africans (Figure 2).
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