Beatri Kruger

Beatri Kruger
Research fellow at Free State Centre for Human Rights at the University of the Free State, RSA.

BA LLB LLM LLD

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Introduction
Beatri Kruger is a research fellow at the Free State Centre for Human Rights at the University of the Free State, RSA. Her research focuses on combating human trafficking from a legal perspective and she is exploring insights from legislation and convictions secured in SA cases on child and adult trafficking. The current project is 'Combating human trafficking'.
Additional affiliations
January 1998 - December 2016
University of the Free State
Position
  • Professor (Associate)
Description
  • Lecturer/researcher in criminal law ( under and post graduate level)
January 2017 - September 2020
University of the Free State
Position
  • Professor (Associate)
Description
  • Research human trafficking mainly from a legal perspective, especially criminal law perspective ( counter-trafficking laws and case law )
Education
January 1998 - December 2016
University of the Free State
Field of study
  • Criminal law

Publications

Publications (21)
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Human traffickers continually develop new tactics to trick and trap their victims, making human trafficking a complex and evolving crime that demands a robust criminal justice response. This response must be consistently refined to combat this pervasive crime effectively. In South Africa, the Prevention and Combating of Trafficking in Persons Act 7...
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Beatri Kruger, Sentrum vir Menseregte, Universiteit van die Vrystaat Opsomming Daar heers heelwat onsekerheid oor die misdade abduksie, menseroof en mensehandel in die Suid-Afrikaanse reg. Hierdie bydrae verken die vervlegting van en verwarring tussen hierdie misdade, en hoe dít regsekerheid in die praktyk raak. Die beginsel van regsekerheid is 'n...
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Co-presented on available relevant evidence substantiating the scope, nature, and extent of child trafficking in South Africa
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This article explores the burning question of whether perpetrators traffic children in South Africa with impunity. Whether this crime is being combated through successful criminal prosecutions in South Africa has not been extensively investigated. This contribution aims to address this gap by exploring the combating of child trafficking in South Af...
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A best kept secret of human traffickers is how they control and silence their victims. An effective counter-trafficking response is often obstructed by traffickers implementing various control methods or a blend thereof depending on what is most effective in the specific circumstances. Although the literature revealed numerous mechanisms to control...
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An existing hiatus in empirical research related to the use of ‘juju’ rituals as a spiritual or psychological control mechanism by perpetrators to subjugate victims of human trafficking for sexual exploitation has underscored the need for this exploratory study. The phenomenon is shrouded in secrecy and little is known about what juju entails and h...
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Combating human trafficking and, in particular, the successful prosecution of this crime remains a daunting challenge worldwide.
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Having ratified the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, South Africa is obliged to adopt legislative measures that criminalise human trafficking and comply with other standards laid down in this international instrument. However, by mid-2011, South Africa had not enacted the required compr...
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Increasingly, it is being demanded that the comprehensive draft legislation pertaining to the combating of human trafficking in South Africa be finalised, demands that are based primarily on South Africa’s international obligations to combat this crime. An assessment of whether the current antitrafficking legislative framework complies with key cri...
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Having ratified the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, South Africa is obliged to adopt legislative measures that criminalise human trafficking and comply with other standards laid down in this international instrument. However, by mid-2011, South Africa had not enacted the required compr...
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The crime of human trafficking has recently received extensive global and local attention. However, owing to the complex and multifaceted nature of this crime, a clear, uniform understanding of this phenomenon remains a challenge. Although some references are made to the South African context, this article explores definitional and related issues p...
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Since the establishment of the first Sexual Offences Court in Wynberg in 1993, various developments have taken place that include, but are not limited to, the following: several investigations into these courts were undertaken; the Sexual Offences and Community Affairs Unit (SOCA Unit) was established; a blueprint for Sexual Offences Courts was dra...
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Child victims of sexual abuse are vulnerable witnesses who experience trauma and secondary victimisation when they testify in sexual abuse cases. Sexual Offences Courts aim to alleviate this problem in various ways. The main focus of this article is to examine the prescribed blueprint for Sexual Offences Courts in order to determine whether bluepri...
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The high incidence of domestic violence in South Africa calls for a competent legal response. The Constitution as well as international human rights conventions oblige the state to protect human rights, including the rights of victims of domestic violence. The government is, therefore, challenged to enact effective legal measures to address domesti...
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To combat crime and especially serious crime by gangs, racketeers, syndicates and druglords, witnesses who are willing to testify against these criminals, must be protected efficiently. To address this problem the South African legislature amended the Criminal Procedure Act 51 of 1977 and enacted the Witness Protection Act 112 of 1998 to create a w...
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In this article the extent of the impact of the new constitutional dispensation on the South African criminal law sphere is discussed. The influence of the Constitution on certain criminal offences, sentencing, justifiable homicide and specific presumptions are focussed on. (J. for Juridical Science: 2001 26 (3): 116-135)

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