Casper Lӧtter

Why the Big Fish escape the justice net

Opinion Casper Lӧtter - 4 Dec 2020

The small fish get caught. Jails are used to control the poor and disorderly and deflect attention from the crimes of the rich and powerful.

Peacemaking criminology as ubuntu: A reply to Thuli Madonsela

Thought Leader Casper Lӧtter - 19 Nov 2020

If the rich and powerful are afforded amnesty, then so too must the poor who are often pushed into lives of crime

Merchants of despair

Opinion Casper Lӧtter - 14 Aug 2020

When imprisonment becomes a business, the profit motive rears its head at the expense of the good of the prisoners. Three recent books deal with the murky workings of the prison-industrial complex in South Africa

Vigorous policing of petty crime during the pandemic suggests a Pyrrhic defeat

Coronavirus Casper Lӧtter - 29 Jul 2020

The ideological aims of the criminal justice system in dysfunctional societies, like South Africa, is to indirectly legitimise the inequitable economic system

The Chinese chameleon reimagined in the age of Covid-19

Coronavirus Casper Lӧtter - 9 May 2020

The West’s perceptions of China hold up a mirror to its own preoccupations. More nuanced analysis is much-needed

Covid-19 stigma: Revealing the pre-existing fault lines in our society

Article Casper Lӧtter - 23 Apr 2020

South Africans have an uncaring stigmatising and marginalising culture and it keeps people on the fringes of society with diminished opportunities in life

Covid-19’s silver lining: A taste of a post-development world

Article Casper Lӧtter - 4 Apr 2020

The coronavirus epidemic has thrown issues such as gross income and ownership inequality into the spotlight, as we try to find ways to navigate through this crisis

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ACFTA should help cross-border traders

Changing corporate purpose is set to transform M&A decision-making in South Africa

Senior Programme Officer – Policy sought

Make Every Day Epic with Samsung Galaxy S21 and Galaxy S21+

Towards a People’s Vaccine Campaign: A call to action

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Head of Finance and Operations, Grow Great campaign

Entry into force of economic partnership agreement between SACU member states and Mozambique, and the UK and Northern Ireland