Total contact crime in South Africa has increased by 4% from January to March this year, compared to the same period last year.

More than 164-thousand contact crimes were reported for the fourth quarter of the 2022/2023 financial year.

To help us better understand these numbers is Professor Jaco Barkhuizen.

He is Head of the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Limpopo.

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