Project Publications
The rule of the gun: Hits and assassinations in South Africa, 2000-2017
Author: Kim Thomas
Publication Date: 2018
Hitmen for Hire: Exposing South Africa’s Underworld
Author: Mark Shaw
Publication Date: 2017
The Commercialization of Assassination: “Hits” and Contract Killing in South Africa, 2000-2015
Author: Mark Shaw and Kim Thomas
Publication Date: 2017
The Hammermen: Life and Death as a Gang Hitman in Cape Town
Author: Mark Shaw and Luke Lee Skywalker
Publication Date: 2016
Other South African Publications
Violence in Democracy: The Political Killing and Intimidation of Local Representatives and Administrators
Author: South Africa Local Government Association
Publication Date: 2017
Heroes under Fire
Author: Open Democracy Advice Centre
Publication Date: 2015
A Provincial Concern?: Political Killings in South Africa
Author: David Bruce
Publication Date: 2014
Political Killings in South Africa
Author: David Bruce
Publication Date: 2014
Significant News Reports
Saba, Athandiwe, Luke Feltham, and Kiri Rupiah. ‘Explore SA’s Killing Fields: An Interactive Map of All 2016 Political Assassinations’. Mail & Guardian, 2 August 2016.
Thamm, Marianne. ‘SA Whistleblowers: Assassinations, Victimisation, Marginalisation for Doing the Right Thing’. Daily Maverick, 3 March 2015.
Van Onselen, Gareth. ‘Political Assassinations: How the ANC Is Killing Its Own’. Business Day, 12 August 2013.
International Publications
An Analysis of Mayoral Assassinations in Mexico, 2000-2017
Author: Laura Y. Calderón
Publication Date: 2018
Becoming a Hitman
Author: David Wilson and Mohammed Rahman
Publication Date: July 2015
The British Hitman: 1974–2013
Author: Donal MacIntyre, David Wilson, Elizabeth Yardley and Liam Brolan
Publication Date: 2014
Killing for Money and the Economic Theory of Crime
Author: Samuel Cameron
Publication Date: 2013
The Political Consequences of Assassination
Author: Zaryab Iqbal and Christopher Zorn
Publication Date: 2008
Contract Killings in Australia
Authors: Jenny Mouzos and John Venditto
Publication Date: 2003
The Phenomenology of Paid Killing
Author: Laurie Calhoun
Publication Date: 2002
The Contract Murderer: Patterns, Characteristics, and Dynamics
Author: L. Schlesinger
Publication Date: 2001