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Jeopardising Justice for What? Keeping Sentence Indications in Victoria
Published 2011-05-17
In 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 ...
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Refugee Women’s Experiences of Violence and Resilience: Early Explorations
Published 2011-05-17
Refugee 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 ...
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Organised Crime: A Chaotic Notion
Published 2011-05-17
Borrowed 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 ...
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Tweeting the News: Criminal Justice Agencies and their Use of Social Networking Sites
Published 2011-05-17
In recent times we have seen an increase in the willingness of criminal justice agencies to engage with new media technologies and social networking sites, not only as a tool for the investigation of criminal activity, but ...
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The Law of the Ruler?
Published 2011-05-17
The 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 ...
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Securing Nightlife: Media Representations of Public and Private Policing
Published 2011-05-17
There 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 ...
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Conference paper
Felon Fights: Masculinity, Spectacle and Suffering
Published 2011-05-17
Felony 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 ...
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Made to Order: A Preliminary Review of Crime Risk Assessments in New South Wales, Australia
Published 2011-05-17
In 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 ...
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Discourse of ‘Dysfunction’: Sentencing Narratives and the Construction of Indigenous Offending
Published 2011-05-17
Using 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 ...
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The Integration of Victim Lawyers into the Adversarial Criminal Trial
Published 2011-05-17
Various 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 ...
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