Abstract

Privileges of race and gender remain characteristic of the South African landscape despite the end of apartheid in 1994. Little is known in the country about race and gender (in)equalities in the production and dissemination of knowledge. This paper reports on the race and gender profile of authors who published in the Acta Criminologica: African Journal of Criminology and Victimology with particular reference to first and second authorship, academic positions, research methods and the universities from which publications originate. Interval sampling was used to select 385 articles that were published between 1993 and 2018. The results show that, overall, White male scholars dominated publications and nearly two in five articles originated from one university. A statistically significant shift featured in publications from Black male and female researchers, as well as articles from marginalized universities, although these changes only occurred towards the end of the study period. The study further confirms racial homogeneity in multi-authored publications, and that men are mostly responsible for quantitative research articles. Male and female scholars from minority groups were virtually absent from publications in the journal. Overall, the study shows that transformation of the Acta Criminologica is taking place at a slow pace.

摘要

尽管种族隔离制度于1994年结束，但种族和性别特权仍然是南非的特色。在南非，人们对种族和性别（知识）在生产和传播方面的平等知之甚少。本文报道了《犯罪学报：非洲犯罪学和被害人杂志》上发表的论文的作者的种族和性别特征。特别要提及第一作者和第二作者的身份，学术职位，研究方法以及出版物的来源大学。使用时间间隔抽样选择了1993年至2018年之间发表的385篇文章。结果显示，总体而言，白人男性学者主导着出版物，近五分之二的文章来自一所大学。黑人男性和女性研究人员的出版物以及边缘大学的论文均具有统计学上的显着变化，尽管这些变化仅发生在研究期末。这项研究进一步证实了多作者出版物中的种族同质性，并且男人主要负责定量研究文章。该刊物上几乎没有少数民族的男女学者。犯罪学进展缓慢。