CAP is the abbreviation for Child Abuse Prevention. We launched the CAP Project at the end of 2010 to raise funds and awareness for the publication of our Special Community Edition on Crimes Against Children, which we envisage to launch during November 2011.
Background
For a period of more than two years, SERVAMUS Community-based Safety and Security Magazine published a series of articles dealing with all the aspects relating to crimes against children. The response and interest we received following the articles’ publication, led us to realise the need to create a special edition focusing on Crimes against Children. As this type of crime is one of Government’s priorities, SARP Publishers, the publishers of SERVAMUS Community-based Safety and Security Magazine, decided to update the articles, combine it with new legislation and publish it into a special community edition.
This special community edition can be regarded as a manual for every person whose path crosses with children. The content includes, among others, a historical background to child abuse; definitions of the types of child abuse with case studies as examples; reporting procedures; the investigative process (medical and criminal) and the judicial process. A second section of the manual deals with the child as the perpetrator compared to the first section which deals with the child as victim. The third part of the manual deals with legislative issues.
