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85 THRHR 534 (2022)
Dangerous Brains: Predicting Future Dangerousness in Dangerous Criminals. Can Neuroscience Assist?

handle is hein.journals/tyromhldre85 and id is 563 raw text is: 2022 (85) THRHR OPSOMMING Gevaarlike breine: Die voorspelling van toekomstige gevaarlikheid in gevaarlike oortreders. Kan die neuroswetenskappe help? Die voorspelling van toekomstige gevaarlikheid was tot dusver klassiek gesetel binne die veld van forensiese psigiatrie. Neurowetenskappe word onlangs toenemend aangevoer in strafverhore tesame met psigiatriese getuienis. Die veld van neurowetenskappe het onlangs ontwikkelings getoon nie net ten aansien van die assessering van strafregtelike aanspreeklikheid nie, maar ook binne die konteks van die voorspelling van toekomstige gevaarlikheid in gevaarlike oortreders. Kognitiewe neurowetenskappe wat essensieel neerkom op 'n analise van die struktuur en funksionering van die brein, word toenemend benut ten einde aan te toon hoekom individue betrokke raak in geweldaddige, aggressiewe, en impulsiewe gedrag. In hierdie aantekening word die rol van neurowetenskappe ge- evalueer binne die konteks van die voorspelling van toekomstige gevaarlikheid in gevaarlike oortreders. Laasgenoemde sal ondersoek word aan die hand van artikels 286A en 286B van die Strafproeseswet 51 van 1977, welke bepalings spesifiek handel oor die proses wat gevolg moet word in gevalle waar gevaarlike oortreders gevonnis moet word. Daar sal verder aangedui word dat ontwikkelinge binne die veld van neurowetenskappe sodanig is dat sodanige getuienis in samehang met forensiese psigiatriese getuienis aan- gebied moet word ten einde die hof met 'n meer holistiese perspektief te voorsien wanneer toekomstige gevaarlikheid oorweeg moet word. 1 Introduction It was an act which destroyed a beautiful family forever and brought great pain and sorrow to them. An act which has broken their hearts and of those who knew and loved Steven. An act that shocked the nation. It was an act in which I robbed little Steven of his love, his innocence, his purity; an act in which I robbed him of his little private body and worst, an act in which I robbed him of life - his right to live. I took away little Steven's life - the life of a 6-year-old child who never did any harm - and my life should be taken away from me, no matter how many tears I've shed or how great my remorse. And in this, I call upon the nation to stand with me and petition the Government to bring back the death sentence, and in the judgment it be passed onto me and that I be executed for this terrible deed. The full wrath of the law must fall upon me and in no way should it have any mercy, for I did not have mercy on little Steven and therefore deserve no mercy (S v Olivier 2007 2 SACR 596 (C) par 29). Thesed are the words of Theuns Olivier, a previously convicted paedophile, who brutally sodomized and killed Steven Siebert, a six-year-old boy on 23 December 2005. It was a beautiful sunny day in Plettenberg Bay. Steven was playing on the beach. Olivier later lured Steven to his home. Little did Steven know what was awaiting him. Olivier brutally sexually assaulted Steven and then strangled him with a telephone cord and watched him die. Olivier placed the body in a cupboard and shaved his beard (para 7). Olivier was convicted of kidnapping, indecent assault, and murder. Forensic psychiatric evidence revealed unanimously that Olivier would con- tinue to be a high risk for repeat offending and remained a danger to children with a poor prognosis. Evidence disclosed that Olivier had a lengthy history of 534

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