• Jeopardising Justice for What? Keeping Sentence Indications in Victoria 

      Flynn, Asher
      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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    • Felon Fights: Masculinity, Spectacle and Suffering 

      Tomsen, Stephen
      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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    • Discourse of ‘Dysfunction’: Sentencing Narratives and the Construction of Indigenous Offending 

      Jeffries, Samantha; Bond, Christine
      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 

      Kirchengast, Tyrone
      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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    • Organised Crime: A Chaotic Notion 

      Beesley, Julie
      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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