25th Annual Law and Society Conference of Australia & New Zealand.: Recent submissions
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(Ill-Legal) Lust is a battle field: HIV risk, socio-sexuality and criminality
Published 2008-12-12This paper examines the criminalisation of HIV infection. HIV transmission offences exist in all Australian states and territories, but the bulk of prosecutions have occurred in Victoria. This paper outlines criminal legal ...Conference paper -
Regulation, ‘Red Tape’ and the ‘War on Terror’: Exploring the regulatory aftermath of September 11th
Published 2008-12-10To date, public debate around human rights and counterterrorism within Australia has focused on changes to criminal law and enforcement that threaten civil liberties. Yet concerns also arise with general security measures ...Conference paper -
Toward a new economy of suspended rights: sex offenders and post-sentence confinement and control
Published 2008-12-11Giorgio Agamben has recently described the state of exception as a new ‘paradigm of government’ while Judith Butler writes of ‘the new war prison’ in which terror suspects and other ‘detainees’ face an indefinite detention ...Conference paper