Irvin Kinnes

Associate Professor

Room 6.36.5 - Kramer Law Building

Irvin Kinnes holds a HDE from UWC, a MSc. in Criminology from the London School of Economics and a PhD in Criminology from UCT. He previously served as Police Training Programme Manager at the Centre of Conflict Resolution where he was responsible for training police managers. He also served on the Boards of the Trauma Centre for victims of violence and torture and RAPCAN. He has been a member of the Committee of Inquiry into Racism in the SAPS. He also served as a member of the Independent Committee of Inquiry into the underlying conditions for the instability and violence in the Western Cape Minibus Taxi Industry. Irvin is also the recipient of the United Nations Vienna Civil Society Award from the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime. Irvin previously worked as the Content Adviser for the Portfolio Committee on Police in Parliament. He is a member of the editorial board of Acta Criminologica: African Journal of Criminology and Victimology

 

Expertise/ Research Interests

Policing and gang governance, organised violence

Teaching

Police and Policing

Publications

  • Book Review (2019): Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard, Surviving gangs, violence, and racism in Cape Town: Ghetto Chameleons, SA Crime Quarterly No. 67, March 2019, 43-49.
  • Petrus, T., and Kinnes, I. (2018). New Social bandits? A Comparative Analysis of Gangsterism in the Western and Eastern Cape Provinces of South Africa, Criminology & Criminal Justice, https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895817750436.
  • Kinnes, I. (2015) Gangs, Drugs and Policing the Cape Flats, Acta Criminologica: Southern African Journal of Criminology, Special Edition No. 2/2014: Research and Application in Criminology and Criminal Justice.
  • Kinnes, I. and Newham, G., (2012). Freeing the Hawks: Why an anti-corruption agency should not be in the SAPS, SA Crime Quarterly, No.39, April 2012, ISS Pretoria.
  • Kinnes, I. (2011). Contesting Police Governance: Respect, Authority and Belonging in Organised Violent Gangs in Cape Town, Acta Criminologica, Southern African Journal of Criminology, Conference, Special Edition 2, 31-46.
  • Kinnes, I. (2009) Uniforms, plastic cops and the madness of “Superman”: An exploration of the dynamics shaping the policing of gangs in Cape, South African Journal of Criminal Justice, Vol.22, no.2, 2009, 176-193.
  • Kinnes, I. (2009) Uniforms, plastic cops and the madness of “Superman”: An exploration of the dynamics shaping the policing of gangs in Cape, South African Journal of Criminal Justice, Vol.22, no.2, 2009, 176-193.
  • Berg, J. and Kinnes, I. (2009). “An Overview of Crime in South Africa”, The Criminologist, 34(3):22-23.
  • Kinnes, I. (1995). Reclaiming the Cape Flats: A community challenge to crime and gangsterism, Crime and Conflict, No.2, Winter 1995, Indicator SA.
  • Kinnes, I. (2019). The South African Experience of Policing Public Gatherings, in
  • Ruteere, M and Mutahi, P. (eds.) Policing Protests in Kenya, Centre for Human
  • Rights and Policy Studies, Nairobi, 73-85.
  • Kinnes, I. & Epprecht, M. (2018). Gangs and Street Kids in Africa, The Global Encyclopaedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer History, New York.
  • Kinnes, I. (2011). Political Violence in South Africa in Johnson, K., and Jacobs, (eds.)
  • Encyclopaedia of South Africa, Lynne Rienner Publishers, Boulder, London, 242- 244.
  • Kinnes. I. (2009). An introduction to the theory and practice of criminal justice in
  • Africa, African Human Security Initiative monograph 161, Institute for Security
  • Studies, June 2009, 1-10.
  • Kinnes, I. (1996). The struggle for the Cape Flats in James, W., Caliguire and Cullinan, K. (eds.) Now that we are free: Coloured Communities in South Africa, Idasa, 16-19.