SAVE Our Berea’s Monster Meeting which takes place tomorrow, Tuesday, 15 March at 7pm in the St Thomas Church Hall, Musgrave, will feature well known Professor Monique Marks as its keynote speaker.
The meeting, which was organised in response to the outpouring of grief and anger following the brutal slaying of Ms Shamila Singh in Musgrave Road recently, will facilitate discussions on the crime spike in the area and what the community can do to help solve it.
“It is sad that for most of us, violent crime has become a way of life. We’ve become accustomed to and accepting of this reality, and only when someone close to us becomes a victim do we really react and make enough noise about it. It is also important to acknowledge that in less privileged communities these things are happening all the time but without nearly as much noise,” said Cheryl Johnson of SOB.
Prof Monique Marks currently heads up the newly established Urban Futures Centre at the Durban University of Technology (UFC@DUT). Initially trained as a social worker, she has a doctorate in Sociology from the University of Natal, and writes predominantly in the field of criminology. She has published widely in the areas of youth social movements, ethnographic research methods, police labour relations, police organizational change and security governance. She has published four books: Young Warriors: Youth Identity, Politics and Violence in South Africa; Transforming the Robocops: Changing Police in South Africa; and Police Occupational Culture: New Debates and Directions (edited with Anne-Marie Singh and Megan O’Neill) and Police Reform from the Bottom Up (edited with David Sklansky). She has also published over 45 peer reviewed articles and numerous reports. She sits on a number of journal editorial boards as well as the Board of Trustees of the Safer South Africa Foundation. She is a B-rated researcher, indicating that she has substantial international recognition. In her research work on security governance she has forged close relations with government, both local and national. Monique also runs a large community engagement project in Durban’s largest low income municipal housing estate, Kenneth Gardens.
She has published widely in the areas of youth social movements, ethnographic research methods, police labour relations, police organizational change and security governance. She has published four books: Young Warriors: Youth Identity, Politics and Violence in South Africa; Transforming the Robocops: Changing Police in South Africa; and Police Occupational Culture: New Debates and Directions (edited with Anne-Marie Singh and Megan O’Neill) and Police Reform from the Bottom Up: Officers and their Unions as Agents of Change (Edited with David Sklansky).
