Associate Professor Thulane Gxubane
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Consultation Times: By Appointment. E-mail or call to request an appointment. Key roles in the Department: Convenor of: SWK08 Criminal Justice Social Work Masters Programme |
Brief Biography:
As social worker he has worked in the field of criminal justice social work mainly with the youth offenders and their families, developed and facilitated a residential diversion programme for youth sex offenders; presented seminars on social work in the criminal justice system to the 4th year social work students as a guest lecturer before joining the Department of Social Work (Wits University) as a lecturer in 2004. Having joined the Department of Social Development UCT in 2005 he later went on to coordinate and co-facilitate a training programme of probation officers employed by the Western Cape provincial government (WCPG) and co-authored Guidelines for Probation Officers, Assistant Probation Officers and Child and Youth Care Workers to Provide Appropriate Services to Children in Conflict with the Law manual under the auspices of the Community Law Centre (UWC) for UNICEF. He served as a member of WCPG Diversion Accreditation Committee; and Child Justice Alliance Driver Group. Based on the preliminary findings of a national study he recently completed focusing on the supervision of probation officers together with Janine Mellish they presented a paper entitled “Revisiting supervision of professional probation practice from the perspectives of probation officers in SA at an international ASASWEI online conference held on 1st to 3rd Sept 2021. He is currently serving as a member of the Editorial Advisory Committee of Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk for which he also reviews manuscripts as well as for international and local journals including Youth Voice Journal, Research on Social Work Practice; Children and Youth Services Review, Journal of Social Development and Social Work in Southern Africa, Social Dynamics; Social Development in Africa, and South African Crime Quarterly. He is also serving as a Deputy Chairperson of the BAC, a NICRO board member and a Home From Home board member.
Research Interest Areas:
Probation practice
Restorative Justice
Youth justice
Youth sex offending.
Recidivism among young offenders
Diversion of youth offenders and
Diversion of adult offenders.
Supervision in probation practice
Teaching Areas
SWK3001F Principles and Application of Social Development
SWK3066S Contemporary Social Work issues
SWK5004F Probation Practice
SWK5052S Contemporary Issues in Criminal Justice Social Work
Recent Publications:
Thulane Gxubane & Janine Mellish. 2021. “Challenges regarding the implementation of some provisions of the Child Justice Act: Lessons from South Africa”. In: Journal of Social Development in Africa. Volume 35. No 2.
Gxubane T. 2021. A Developmental Social Work Practice Framework for Promoting Healthy Human Relationships for and Amongst Youth in South Africa. In: Noyoo N. (eds) Promoting Healthy Human Relationships in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50139-6_11
Gxubane, T. 2019. The Role of Probation Officers in Enhancing Innovative and Sustainable Youth Entrepreneurship Programmes. In: Youth Voice Journal, ISSN (online): 2969. Available:
Gxubane, T. 2019. “Facilitation of the youth sex offenders’ residential diversion programmes in South Africa”. In: Southern African Journal of Social Work and Social Development, Vol 31 (2). Available: https://upjournals.co.za/index.php/SWPR/article/view/4448
Mguzulwa, S. & Gxubane, T. 2019. Male high school learners’ perceived impact of their involvement in youth gang violence on their educational attainment in Khayelitsha Site B. In: Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk Journal, Vol 55 (3) Issue 3. Available:http://socialwork.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/739/679
Gxubane, T. (2018) ‘Reintegration challenges of youth who were diverted into a residential sex offenders’ programme in South Africa’, Youth Voice Journal, Vol 8. Available: https://youthvoicejournal.com/2018/08/21/thulane-gxubane-2018-reintegration-challenges-of-youth-who-were-diverted-into-a-residential-sex-offenders-programme-in-south-africa/
Gxubane, T. 2016. “The prospects of family group conferencing with youth sex offenders and their victims in SA”. In Gavrielides, T. Offenders No More: An Interdisciplinary Restorative Justice Dialogue. New York: Nova Publishers: pp 267-287.
Gxubane, T. 2015. “Multi-disciplinary practice guidelines for the management of youth sex offenders within a restorative justice approach in South Africa”. In: Restorative Justice: An International Journal Vol 3 (1): pp49-74.
Gxubane, T. 2014. “Restorative justice with youth sex offenders: Issues for practice”. In: The Social Worker Practitioner Researcher / Die Maatskaplikewerk Navorser-Praktisyn journal, Vol. 26 (2). : pp 241-259.
Gxubane, T. 2012. “A developmental social work approach to crime prevention through restorative justice”. In Holtzhausen, L. (Ed). Criminal Justice Social Work: A South African Practice Framework. Cape Town: Juta & Company Ltd: pp 99-117.
Associations
NICRO Board of Directors
HOME FROM HOME Board of Trustees
AFRICAN FORUM FOR RESTORATIVE JUSTICE AFFILIATE
EUROPEAN FORUM FOR RESTORATIVE JUSTICE AFFILIATE
RESTORATIVE JUSTICE FOR ALL (RJ4ALL) INTERNATIONAL AFFILIATE
RESTORATIVE JUSTICE PEDAGOGY RESEARCH NETWORK MEMBER