The Australian and New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference Proceedings 2010: Recent submissions
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
The Utopian Nightmare: Key Issues about Lesbian Domestic Violence according to Brisbane Domestic Violence Services
Published 2011-05-17This research documents what Brisbane domestic violence (DV) service providers consider to be key issues about lesbian domestic violence (LDV). Interviews sought to determine if, from service providers’ perspectives, ...Open AccessConference paper