https://hdl.handle.net/2123/8590 Mon, 08 Jun 2026 06:39:23 GMT 2026-06-08T06:39:23Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/34179 The Use and Misuse of Metaphors Mohseni, Aryan; Gummow, William The use of metaphors in legal reasoning has received renewed attention in recent decisions of the High Court of Australia and the UK Supreme Court. Reliance upon metaphor has a history of criticism as apt to confuse and mislead, but also has been described as a means of persuasion which assists in understanding legal doctrine. There are various species of legal metaphor. In this article, these are discussed under eight headings. Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/2123/34179 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/25107 Dataset for 'Questionable and open research practices in criminology' Chin, Jason Dataset - To provide initial evidence about how criminologists view QRPs and OSPs, and about whether they use them, we conducted a preregistered study of researchers who publish criminological science. The population of interest for our study was researchers who published in criminology and criminal justice journals during the past 10 years. Our study, the first survey research on QRPs and OSPs in criminology, can be used to shed light on whether there are particular strengths and weaknesses in criminology’s current practices. The findings can also be used as benchmarks to be revisited as the field changes Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/2123/25107 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/8593 Bin Laden in the suburbs: criminalising the Arab Other Poynting, Scott; Noble, Greg; Tabar, Paul; Collins, Jock This book examines public worrying over 'ethnic crime' and what it tells us about Australia today. How, for instance, can the blame for a series of brutal group sexual assaults in Sydney be so widely attributed to whole ethnic communities? How is it that the arrival of a foundering boatload of asylum-seekers mostly seeking refuge from despotic regimes in 'the Middle East' can be manipulated to characterise complete cohorts of applicants for refuge - and their immigrant compatriots - as dangerous, dishonest, criminally inclined and inhuman? How did the airborne terror attacks on the USA on 11 September 2001 exacerbate existing tendencies in Australia to stereotype Arabs and Muslims as backward, inassimilable, without respect for Western laws and values, and complicit with barbarism and terrorism? Bin Laden in the Suburbs argues that we are witnessing the emergence of the 'Arab Other' as the pre-eminent 'folk devil' of our time. This Arab Other functions in the national imaginary to prop up the project of national belonging. It has little to do with the lived experiences of Arab, Middle Eastern or Muslim Australians, and everything to do with a host of social anxieties which overlap in a series of moral panics. Bin Laden in the Suburbs analyses a decisive moment in the history of multiculturalism in Australia. 'Unlike most migrants, the Arab migrant is a subversive will...They invade our shores, take over our neighbourhood and rape our women. They are all little bin Ladens and they are everywhere: explicit bin Ladens and closet bin Ladens; conscious bin Ladens and unconscious bin Ladens; bin Ladens on the beach and bin Ladens in the suburbs, as this book is aptly titled. Within this register...even a single Arab is a threat. Contain the Arab, or exterminate the Arab? A 'tolerable' presence in the suburbs, or caged in a concentration camp?...The politics of the Western post-colonial state is constantly and dangerously oscillating between these two tendencies today. It is this dangerous oscillation that is so lucidly exposed in this book.' - Ghassan Hage, 'Forward', Bin Laden in the Suburbs. Thu, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/2123/8593 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z