Promoting Partnerships for Crime Prevention Between State and Private Security Providers in Southern Africa Gumedze, S.(Ed) Crime, Security The report explores crime prevention partnerships between the state and the private security sector in four selected southern African countries, namely, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Swaziland, with a view to influencing policy processes aimed at improving crime prevention initiatives. The overall objective of the research was to explore crime prevention partnerships between the state and the private security sector in selected Southern African countries. While the policy interventions targeted through this research mainly focus on the national level, utilising the research findings in influencing policies at the sub-regional, regional and international levels could be an important consideration. It is hoped that through this research, the establishment and strengthening of partnerships between the state and the private security sector, in particular, will result in the drastic reduction of crime levels in these countries and also prove that such partnerships could be viable and strategically sound tools for crime prevention in the southern African region. South Africa Private Security Industry Regulatory Authority 2015 2015 Text 276p. iffoadatabase.trustafrica.org/iff/IDL-54416.pdf