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Lukas Muntingh

Project Head

 

Lukas Muntingh is co-founder and Project Coordinator of Africa Criminal Justice Reform (ACJR). He holds a PhD (Law) from UWC and an MA (Sociology) from Stellenbosch University. He has been involved in criminal justice reform since 1992. He has worked in Southern and East Africa on child justice, prisoners’ rights, preventing corruption in the prison system, the prevention and combating of torture, and monitoring legislative compliance. He has published extensively and presented at several conferences. His current focus is on the prevention and combating of torture and ill-treatment of people deprived of their liberty.

 

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  • Member: Editorial Board SA Crime Quarterly 

Julia Sloth-Nielsen

Co-Founder

 

Julia Sloth-Nielsen is Professor of Law at the University of the Western Cape and the chair of Children’s Rights in the Developing World at the Child Law Department at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands.

 

She was a drafter of the South African Children’s Act, and has contributed to child law reform in many southern and eastern African countries (among them, Mozambique, Lesotho, Malawi, and South Sudan). She has published widely on child and family law issues, including in the areas of customary family law, juvenile justice, child-headed households, and access to justice.

 

Prof Sloth-Nielsen served as a member of the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child between 2011 and 2016. Currently she serves as a member of an international expert group on surrogacy, co-convenes an annual summer school in Leiden on the frontiers of children’s rights, and co-convenes an annual conference on child and family law in Cape Town.

 

A staff member at UWC since 1994, Prof Sloth-Nielsen has extensive postgraduate supervision experience, with more than 70 students having graduated under her supervision, and has also lectured internationally in Belgium, Switzerland, China, and the United Kingdom.

 

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Jean Redpath

Senior Researcher

 

Jean Redpath joined Africa Criminal Justice Reform (ACJR) in September 2012. She has a PhD (Law) from the University of the Western Cape, an LLB and BSc from the University of Cape Town, and is an admitted attorney. Jean specialises in measuring the impact of policy and law through qualitative and quantitative research methods, and in measuring of criminal justice processes. 

 

Prior to joining ACJR she worked as an independent consultant in criminal justice. She has worked on issues of criminal justice in countries across sub-Saharan Africa and in Eastern Europe.

 

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

  • Muntingh, L. Redpath, J. Petersen, K, Faull, A. The State of Democratic Policing in South Africa (2018) Confidential Report for the Civilian Secretariat on Policing (200 pages) 
  • Redpath J & Petersen K, Western Cape Community Court Evaluation (2017) Confidential Report for the Western Cape Department of Community Safety, Africa Criminal Justice Reform (87 pages) 
  • Supplementary affidavit In the matter between the Social Justice Coalition & Equal Education v The Minister of Police, National Commissioner of Police, Western Cape Police Commissioner & Minister for Community SafetyEquality Court, Cape Town (2017) 
  • Expert affidavit In the matter between the Social Justice Coalition & Equal Education v The Minister of Police, National Commissioner of Police, Western Cape Police Commissioner & Minister for Community SafetyEquality Court, Cape Town, (30 March 2016) (32 pages excluding annexures) 
  • ‘Dagga possession ruling set to impact on the NPA’s conviction performance rate’ Daily Maverick 20 September 2018 

Kristen Petersen 

Researcher

 

Kristen Petersen joined ACJR in July 2015 as a Researcher. She is an admitted attorney and holds a Masters degree in Human Rights Law. Kristen has been working in the human rights and criminal justice sector since 2012. She previously worked in the legal services department of the South African Human Rights Commission and at the Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Services where she reported on the treatment of inmates and their conditions of detention.

 

Her experience and area of work are on a wide range of criminal justice and human rights issues such as pre-trial justice, prisoners’ rights, policing, torture prevention and oversight and prison reform. She is actively involved in the Detention Justice Forum in South Africa and the regional campaign on the Decriminalisation and Declassification of Petty Offences in Africa. 

 

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

  • Muntingh, L. M. & Petersen, K. (2015) Report on survey of children in correctional centres in South Africa, CSPRI and JICS Research Report. 
  • Muntingh L with Redpath J, Faull, A. and Petersen K. (2018) Report on the state of democratic policing in South Africa, Commissioned by the Civilian Secretariat for Police Services.

 

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Tina Lorizzo

Research Associate

 

Tina Lorizzo is the founder and Director of REFORMAR -  Research for Mozambique. She is Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Law (UWC) and Research Associate of ACJR. She holds an LLB from Bologna (Italy), a Masters from UCT and is a Doctoral Candidate(Public Law) at UCT. She is based in Mozambique and also works in wider Lusophone Africa.
 
Her areas of research are prison reform, policing and, in particular, issues related to pre-trial detention, the prohibition and prevention of torture, juvenile justice, constitutionality of criminal law and customary law.

 

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

  • REFORMAR – Research for Mozambique (2020) Submission by REFORMAR to the Universal Periodic Review of Mozambique, 3rd Cycle - Thematic Contribution in Relation to Criminal Justice 
  • Petrovic, V., Lorizzo, T., Muntingh, L. (2020) Alternatives to Imprisonment in Mozambique. The implementation of community service orders.  
  • REFORMAR – Research for Mozambique (2019) Children in conflict with the law. Access to Legal Aid and and Programs of Rehabilitation and Social Reintegration. Rede da Criança. 
  • REFORMAR – Research for Mozambique (2019) Submission by REFORMAR to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on Women in Prison in Mozambique for the review of Mozambique’s combined 3 rd to 5th Periodic Report to be considered at the 73rd Session of CEDAW.
  • REFORMAR – Research for Mozambique (2019). An assessment of some aspects of judicial integrity in Mozambique.  Centro de Integridade Publica (CIP). (English and Portuguese) 
  • Lorizzo, T. (2016) Constitucionalidade da Legislação Penal e Penitenciária em Àfrica – Moçambique. Dullah Omar Institute. (English and Portuguese) 
  • Trindade, J.C., Muntingh L., Mota do Amaral, A.J., Lorizzo T., Cruzio, B. (2015) Crianças em conflito com a lei em Moçambique. Em busca de uma estratégia de protecção. UNICEF. 
  • Lorizzo, T. (2014) The African Commission’s Guidelines on Pre-trial Detention: Implication for Angola and Mozambique. CSPRI-PPJA Occasional Paper No.1, August 2014. 
  • Lorizzo, T. (2013) Submission by the Article 5 Initiative on Policing and Imprisonment for the review of the Mozambique Consolidated Report 1994-2010 to the UN Committee Against Torture to be considered at the 51st Session of CAT. Available at: https://reformar.co.mz/publicacoes/int_cat_ngo_moz_15428_e.pdf
  • Lorizzo, T. (2012) Assessing the experience of pre-trial detainees in Maputo. South Africa Crime Quaterly No. 42, 2012.

Janelle Mangwanda

Researcher

 

Janelle Mangwanda is a researcher at ACJR and joined the team in January 2019. She previously worked at the Department of Public Enterprises and the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) under the Africa Institute of South Africa programme. Janelle holds a Master of Arts (MA) degree in International Relations from the University of Pretoria.

 

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Crystal Nitsckie

Project Administrator

 

Crystal Nitsckie is the ACJR Project Administrator. Crystal joined the Dullah Omar Institute (formerly Community Law Centre) in June 2012 as a project administrator for both the Children's Right Project and ACJR (formerly CSPRI).

Previously she worked at the office of the Deputy Registrar and Secretariat at the University of the Western Cape as an Administrative Officer. Prior to this, she worked at a number of law firms as a Legal Secretary after completing her Paralegal Studies at the South African School of Paralegal Studies in 2006.

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