Dr NB Bougard

Qualifications

• PhD Criminology UP
• MA Criminology - UP
• B.Soc.Sc Honours Criminology - UFS
• B.Soc.Sc. Human and Societal Dynamics - UFS

Currently teaching

• CMY3706: Contemporary Crime

• CMY4804: Criminological Assessment and Evaluation

Fields of academic interests

• Gender-based violence
• Social policy
• Developmental Criminology
• Psychocriminology
• Economic crimes
• Gangsterism
• Victimology
• Criminological assessment and evaluation of offenders.

Field of Specialisation

• Medico-legal victimology

Journal articles

• Hesselink, A. & Bougard, N.B. 2020. Risk factors associated with youth gang involvement: An explorative criminological case study analysis. Journal of Psychology in Africa, 30 (5): 459-465.
• Bougard, N.B & Hesselink, A. 2019. The male victim of child rape: An explorative needs, risks and intervention analysis for serial rape. Child Abuse Research: A South African Journal, 20 (2): 1-13.

• Bougard, N.B. 2019. Risks, protective factors and intervention strategies for youth substance abuse. Servamus, May.

• Bougard, N.B. 2018. Challenges in rendering an integrated mode of service delivery to survivors of child rape. Servamus, February.Bougard, N.B. 2018. The impact of incarceration on the well-being of youth offenders. Servamus, May

Paper presentations

• The perceived quality of medical and medico-legal legal services rendered to adult female rape survivors in the Gauteng Province, 24-25 September 2022, Alberton Civic Centre Johannesburg, Ekurhuleni Department of Health.
• International Police Executive Symposium (IPES) United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) 19-24 August 2018 (Vienna).
• The European Group Study of Deviance and Social Control 45th Annual Conference 25-29 September 2017 (Greece).

The perceived quality of medical and medico-legal legal services rendered to adult female rape survivors in the Gauteng Province, 24-25 September 2022, Alberton Civic Centre Johannesburg, Ekurhuleni Department of Health.

Professional positions, fellowships & awards

• Harvard Global Scholars Academy 2023Harvard Global Scholars Academy 2023

  Issued by Harvard University and Stellenbosch University-Jan 2023

  The aim of this highly competitive global academy focusses on bringing together selected PhD and Post-Doc scholars from the legal domain worldwide in exploring global challenges such as global poverty, conflict, injustice, and inequality. The academy falls under the Institute for Global Law & Policy Harvard Law School.

   

• Academic Qualifications Improvement Programme (AQIP) June 2019-June 2022

  This is a selected and competitive programme aimed at allowing academics at UNISA to complete their doctoral or master’s research over a period of three years. Teaching relieve is granted and a substitute lecturer takes over the duties of the recipient over the specified timeframe.

Projects

• Pre-parole and criminological assessment of offenders