LKP Criminological Services

01/07/2021

IMPORTANT NOTICE

As you are aware, the POPI Act comes (came) into effect on 1 July 2021.

One of the aspects regulated by POPI, is social media chat groups (such as whatsapp, wechat, etc). In terms of POPI, each member of a social media chat group must give their permission to be made part of the group and any person who does not agree, has the right to immediately leave the group.

1. Do you want to or agree to be a part of the group?

2. Do you agree to respect others privacy and not share information on other platforms ?

If your answer is YES, stay, enjoy and have fun.

If your answer is NO / UNDECIDE / NOT SURE, please leave the group.

Take note that by remaining in this group, you acknowledge that you understand the above information, that you agree to be a part of this social media chat group and to your name, telephone number, profile picture and any other Personal Information being shared by you on this platform/chat, being visible to other members of this group.

31/07/2017

Please be careful at the Airport

15/03/2017

West Africa could be on the verge of developing its own fully realized underground cybercrime market, buoyed by a combination of traditional 419 advance-fe

15/12/2014

Wishing everyone a wonderful festive season and a kickass 2015!

31/07/2014

I found this passage from Nick van der Leek's book so moving And so relevant! A perfect summary of Oscar's testimony!

31/07/2014

Some feedback on the article below from one of our readers.

Dear Ms. P-J:
Re your latest article in the Standard, on DPD, allow me to say how much I appreciated it and learned from it. Actually, there have been very few if any of your essays in the local press, since the first that I saw, which I have not read with great interest and some benefit. (That first was on the ugly subject of r**e, to which I added a few published observations of my own a week later; far from taking umbrage you actually called me on my cellphone in Serowe and we exchanged pleasantries.)
The fact is, my family in Botswana has a sufferer from Dependent Personality Disorder - though having no psychiatric training, I did not know that it had a recognised name, and that evidently cases are not extremely rare. Some small comfort in that, without doubt. Actually, our "case", afflicting a man in his mid-40s, is not too dramatic or disruptive - thanks to the patient elder sister with whom he lives and for whom he works to a certain level. They are both single, though with children; the man had a
partner and two daughters before he was affected at around age 25. He's had a session or two down at Sbrana Clinic - I know no details - though not so many as his late mother who was sadly schizophrenic. A link? I couldn't say. Anyway, things could be much worse, and without regular medication in this case, they probably would be. Disregarding his affliction, our man is a most pleasant fellow - and even retains a real and infectious sense of humour. It's a funny old business, the human condition...
On a very different matter, I have been following your "take" on the O.Pistorius trial, and would imagine that your reading of his character would not vary much from mine. From an early stage I got the impression of a very unpleasant man : totally self-centred and self-pitying, arrogant and aggressive, unconnected with others'
feelings, and lethally violent. I don't think that his truly remarkable background, and personal triumphs, are any justification for what he did, and though I would not commend him for capital punishment (if there were any in SA), I would certainly take him out of circulation for 20 years. How soft on Odious Oscar will the presiding judge prove to be?
Anyway, thanks again for a fine series of articles. Among the plethora of political, litigational, promotional and general dross in our wonderfully free press, your items set a high standard of interest and literacy. If you ever have occasion to take a
break at our ###XX - or indeed at the local ###### Bar - give us a bell and I'll be happy to stand you a half.
Kind regards:
Ralph ###XX.

31/07/2014

Last weeks Sunday Standard Article: The Role of Dependent Personality Disorder in Crime http://www.sundaystandard.info/article.php?NewsID=20652&GroupID=5 …
Enjoy!

18/06/2014

Back in South Africa next week. I am not sure what is happening to our posts but they are not visible to me! Weird!

28/01/2014

CYBER PREDATORS WHO COMMIT CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN
Bear this in mind when posting photo's of your kids on the net!

There are two types of s*xual cyberpredators. First, there is the SITUATIONAL s*xual cyberpredator. This person does not have a true preference when it comes to a child as a s*x partner. The victim to this person is incidental, rather than targeted. These offenders are less likely to have multiple child victims in their past. Some seek child victims as a pattern of their other violent behavior and others hunt for child victims for their own s*xual experimentation. A few of these individuals do progress to become serial predators and are at times difficult to apprehend. They minimize their exposure to the risk of getting caught, are experienced in committing crimes, and have better control of their emotions than some other criminals.
Secondly, there is PREFERENTIAL s*xual cyberpredator. These people have a true preference for s*xual contact with children, and usually have multiple victims in their lifetime. They go to great lengths to gain access to children (employment, volunteerism, marriage.) There are two types of preferential offenders: Sophisticated and Introverted. The sophisticated offender possesses the social skills necessary to relate to children and the introvert lacks confidence, patience, and ability to seduce or trick children. The preferential predator is highly motivated to commit child s*x crimes and has a high recidivism rate. This type of person is a manipulator, who will use conversation, gifts, trick, and lures to secure victims. He/she uses s*xual fantasies to focus on children and may engage in collecting, producing or trading child po*******hy. While the computer has a certain appeal to all internet predators of children, for the introvert, it supplies him/her with anonymity, security, and total privacy. He/she is in an unsupervised environment, has easy access to stored material, and the offense provides nearly instant gratification. Cyber crime investigators must understand that the computer is a tool that facilitates the predator’s interest in children. Investigators must understand that the offender is the target of the investigation and not the computer. The computer opens the door for these hunters to identify and locate potential victims anywhere in the world. It also gives them the opportunity to disguise their identities when communicating with children.

15/03/2013

My CNN Interview with Erin Burnett NY http://edition.cnn.com/video/ #/video/bestoftv/2013/02/20/exp-erin-conflicting-accounts-in-oscar-pistorius-case.cnn

Erin Burnett discuss conflicting accounts in the Oscar Pistorius case with Laurie Peters and Theodore Simon.