Assignment 3
Question 1
1.1 The South African police services
●Ensure the safety and security of all persons and property in the national territory
●Uphold and safeguard the fundamental rights of every person as guaranteed by chapter 3 of the
constitution
●Ensure co-operation between the service and the communities it serves in the combating of crime
●Reflect respect for victims of crime and an understanding of their needs
●Ensure effective civilian supervision over the service
●Ensure offenders are brought to justice
●Participate in effort to address the root cause of crime
●Investigate any crimes that threaten the safety and security of any community
1.2 Courts
●To provide for the separation of convicted individuals from society where necessary
●To promote justice in individual cases
●To ensure the public perceptions of justice in individual cases
●To rehabilitate individuals convicted of crime
●To deter criminal behavior
●Responsible to provide for a formal record of legal status
●Responsible to protect individual against the arbitrary use of government power
●To provide an important forum for the resolution of legal disputes
●To protect vulnerable populations, abused and neglected children and adults from the abuse power in
any form
●To promote coordination with justice, public health, social service and other agencies to address
common problems underlying the court's criminal and civil caseload, including substance use and
mental health
1.3 Correctional services
●To contribute to maintaining and protecting a just, peaceful and safe society by enforcing sentences of
the courts and detaining all offenders in safe custody whilst ensuring their human dignity
●Promoting the social responsibility and human development of all offenders and person's subject to
community corrections
●Ensuring a safe, secure and human detention
●The department personnel, and ensuring the safety of members of the public
●Reintegration offenders into communities
●Providing needs-based rehabilitation
●Creating and maintaining a correct environment for South African citizens
Question 2
2.1 Educationist
●Nurses
●Religious workers
●Social workers
●Psychologists
2.2 Social workers
The role is a challenging one and involves complex case work. Social workers provide assessment and
intervention services for prisoners. They conduct individual counseling, provide treatment assignments
for appropriate programs, assess at-risks prisoners and facilitate group programs. All designed to
enhance and support rehabilitation. Social workers address the factors associated with offending
behavior and assist with daily life especially within prison environments.
Psychologists
Stress, depression, substance abuse and mental disorders are common among inmates. The role of a
correctional facility psychologist is to help these people get their lives back on track and prevent them
from committing further crimes. Correctional psychologists use their skills to prevent self-harm and
suicide, assess offenders with intellectual disabilities and conduct mental health evaluations. Inmates
often have suicidal or homicidal ideation. Some may intend to hurt others or fantasize about crimes. As
correctional psychologist, it's your responsibility to understand their triggers and correct their behavior.
Religious workers
The Spirit Care Directorate is determined to boost its impact in community corrections through
partnership and empowering chaplains on their role in offender rehabilitation and social reintegration.
It's mandate clearly dictate a need for engagements with faith-based organizations to ensure provision
of integrated and holistic rehabilitation programs to the offender. These partnership assist the
department to expand its teaching taking care of offenders inside correctional facilities and beyond
Educationist
Education programs are among the many programs offered by correctional services to prepare
offenders to become productive and law abiding citizens. Correctional services also makes provision for
community involvement in delivering correctional services. The department must provide or give access
for a full range of programmes and activities that are practicable to meet the educational rehabilitation
needs of sentenced prisoners. The department must provide social and ecological services in order to
develop and support sentenced prisoners by promoting their social functioning and mental health
PLAGIARISM DECLARATION
1.
I know that plagiarism means taking and using the ideas, writings, works or inventions of
another as if they were one’s own. I know that plagiarism not only includes verbatim copying, but also
the extensive use of another person’s ideas without proper acknowledgement (which includes the
proper use of quotation marks). I know that plagiarism covers this sort of use of material found in
textual sources and from the Internet.
2.
I acknowledge and understand that plagiarism is wrong.
3.
I understand that my research must be accurately referenced. I have followed the rules and
conventions concerning referencing, citation and the use of quotations as set out in the Departmental
Guide.
4.
This assignment is my own work, or my group’s own unique group assignment. I acknowledge
that copying someone else’s assignment, or part of it, is wrong, and that submitting identical work to
others constitutes a form of plagiarism.
5.
I have not allowed, nor will I in the future allow, anyone to copy my work with the intention of
passing it off as their own work.
Name……Londeka Protecia Khumalo ……… Student #..10211837.........................
Signed ………L.P Khumalo……………………………………. Date: 25 June 2021……….