Browsing The Australian and New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference Proceedings 2010 by title
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Curiosity Killed the M-Cat: an Examination of Illicit Drugs and Media
Published 2011-05-17Using mainstream media communication theories, this article outlines different mechanisms by which media can impact on public perceptions of drugs and crime. The media can set the agenda and define public interest; frame ...Open AccessConference paper -
‘Damaged Goods’: Riskiness and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Young People’s Interactions with Police
Published 2011-05-17For some time now, research has suggested lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) young people are ‘at-risk’ of victimisation and legally ‘risky’. Relatively few studies have examined how ‘risk factor’ research ...Open AccessConference paper -
Discourse of ‘Dysfunction’: Sentencing Narratives and the Construction of Indigenous Offending
Published 2011-05-17Using a narrative analysis of judges sentencing remarks in South Australian higher courts, we explore whether broader discourses ‘dysfunction’ ‘disorganisation’, ‘deprivation’ and ‘pathology’ impact understandings of ...Open AccessConference paper -
Domestic Violence: A Research Agenda
Published 2011-05-17This paper presents a brief overview of emerging issues in domestic violence research. Specifically, it sets out a research agenda in the context of rural and remote communities; gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and ...Open AccessConference paper -
Felon Fights: Masculinity, Spectacle and Suffering
Published 2011-05-17Felony Fights is a website and set of DVDs depicting ‘no rules’ combat between male former convicts and a range of opponents. In these, the spectacle of violence serves to obscure the profoundly unequal relations of power ...Open AccessConference paper -
Force Selling: Policing and the Manufacture of Public Confidence?
Published 2011-05-17This paper explores aspects of the ways in which police image work is conducted in NSW. Specifically, it looks at the links between such image work and the project of public confidence building in the police. Based on ...Open AccessConference paper -
The Integration of Victim Lawyers into the Adversarial Criminal Trial
Published 2011-05-17Various common law jurisdictions now allow for the representation of the victim in court in order to further integrate the victim into the criminal justice system. In certain common law jurisdictions, victim lawyers may ...Open AccessConference paper -
Jeopardising Justice for What? Keeping Sentence Indications in Victoria
Published 2011-05-17In 2004, the Office of the Victorian Attorney General released the Justice Statement Part I, which outlined a ten-year plan to modernise Victoria’s criminal justice system. A key initiative emerging from this idealistic ...Open AccessConference paper -
The Law of the Ruler?
Published 2011-05-17The title of this article arises out of the misunderstanding that so long as there is a law, so long as the ruler (even a democratic one) has made valid law, then the rule of law operates. The question mark is intended to ...Open AccessConference paper -
Made to Order: A Preliminary Review of Crime Risk Assessments in New South Wales, Australia
Published 2011-05-17In 2001, guidelines were introduced in New South Wales (NSW) to ensure that proposed developments/redevelopments of the built environment reflected key crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) principles. The ...Open AccessConference paper -
Observations about the History of Critical Criminology in Australia
Published 2011-05-17This paper provides some schematic genealogical observations of a rich and varied field of scholarship in Australia loosely badged as critical criminology. Those working in the critical criminology tradition have been ...Open AccessConference paper -
Offences against the (Moral) Person: HIV Transmission Offences in Australia
Published 2011-05-17HIV transmission remains a focus of criminal prosecutions in Australia, with many of these cases appearing before Victorian courts. This paper will specifically explore the Victorian prosecution of Michael Neal, who was ...Open AccessConference paper -
Organised Abuse and Testimonial Legitimacy
Published 2011-05-17This paper will discuss the relationship between sexual abuse, invalidation and testimonial legitimacy with a particular focus on organised abuse. Using qualitative data drawn from a study of adult survivors of organised ...Open AccessConference paper -
Organised Crime: A Chaotic Notion
Published 2011-05-17Borrowed theories and principles from the physical sciences have enabled social scientists and criminologists to analyse well-worn theories and data from a new perspective. One such theory is chaos theory, a subset of the ...Open AccessConference paper -
(Re)Gendering Violence: Men, Masculinities and Violence
Published 2011-05-17This paper focuses on constructions of violence, in particular the ways in which violence is constructed as a social problem in and through policy discourses. Inspired by an earlier study into the ways in which practitioners, ...Open AccessConference paper -
Refugee Women’s Experiences of Violence and Resilience: Early Explorations
Published 2011-05-17Refugee experiences of violence are well known and may include violence in the country of origin, in refugee camps, countries of detention and, especially for women and children, in their own families before and after ...Open AccessConference paper -
Securing Nightlife: Media Representations of Public and Private Policing
Published 2011-05-17There is ongoing ambivalence concerning door staff and crowd controllers in the night-time economy (NTE). Expanded private security is often acknowledged as a legitimate solution to the fear people experience in relation ...Open AccessConference paper -
Social Networking Sites and Crime: Is Facebook more than just a Place to Procrastinate?
Published 2011-05-17This paper analyses the most popular social networking website (SNS)2—Facebook—and its engagement with crime. Through media analysis of several Australian and international newspapers and using case studies, the paper ...Open AccessConference paper -
The Subject in Peril
Published 2011-05-17What follows is an introduction to my forthcoming doctoral research regarding the portrayal of the subject and object of fear in road safety public education campaigns. The objective of this particular paper is to situate ...Open AccessConference paper -
‘This is Africa’: Filmic Negotiations of Crime, Justice and Global Responsibility
Published 2011-05-17Film is a significant medium through which Western audiences learn about crime and suffering occurring beyond their national borders. On this basis, this article critically reflects on the ‘knowledge’ of criminal violence ...Open AccessConference paper