Terblanche

Stephan Terblanche worked as a prosecutor and magistrate, before moving to the University of South Africa (Unisa) in 1992, in the Department of Criminal and Procedural Law. His research and teaching centred on the sentencing of criminal offenders. He is the author of A Guide to Sentencing in South Africa 3ed (2016, LexisNexis). He has authored more than 60 articles in South African law journals, almost exclusively of topics related to sentencing. Some themes within these topics have been mandatory minimum sentences, the need for sentencing guidelines, as well as the sentencing provisions of the Child Justice Act, 2008. He has also served as a consultant for the South African Law Reform Commission, inter alia in its report on a new sentencing framework (2000). He travels widely internationally and is a regular guest at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Freiburg, Germany. He retired from Unisa in 2020, but continues publishing locally and internationally, as Honorary Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He is the general editor and an author of the bi-annual revision service of Commentary on the Criminal Procedure Act (1987, Juta) and a member of the editorial board of the Southern African Journal of Criminal Justice.