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Finnane, Mark. "Sir John Barry and the Melbourne Department of Criminology: Some Other Foundations of Australian Criminology." Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology 31, no. 1 (April 1998): 69–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000486589803100105.
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The development of ‘Australian criminology’has been the subject of some comment in the last decade, in common with a recent interest internationally in the formation of the discipline. An influential account by Carson and O'Malley (1989) placed much emphasis on the erosion of criminology's critical potential by a mix of political, intellectual and professional currents in post-war Australia. On the basis of a review of evidence in the papers of Sir John Barry, it is argued here that the establishment of Australia's first academic criminology department, at the University of Melbourne, was characterised by a greater openness to critical and inter-disciplinary inquiry than might be expected. This study suggests the need for a more detailed scrutiny of the formation of the discipline in Australia and elsewhere.
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Israel, Mark. "The Commercialisation of University-Based Criminological Research in Australia." Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology 33, no. 1 (April 2000): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000486580003300102.
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As part of the Australian university sector, criminologists have been encouraged to find commercial clients for their skills and products. This paper examines the implications for the future development of criminology in Australia of changing patterns of Commonwealth, State and non-government organisation funding. It explores what might happen to criminology if the entrepreneurial periphery gains a tighter purchase on the academic core.
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Finnane, Mark. "The origins of criminology in Australia." Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology 45, no. 2 (July 18, 2012): 157–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0004865812443682.
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James, Steve, and Adam Sutton. "Criminology and Crime Control in Australia." Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology 27, no. 3 (December 1994): 299–308. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000486589402700306.
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McCulloch, Jude, Tara Renae McGee, John Casey, Mike Grewcock, and Max Travers. "Reviews." Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology 38, no. 1 (April 2005): 148–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1375/acri.38.1.148.
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State Crime: Governments, Violence and Corruption; By Penny Green and Tony Ward (2004) London: Pluto Press, 255 pp, ISBN 0745317847 Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives: Delinquent Boys to Age 70 By John H. Laub and Robert J. Sampson; (2003) Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 338 pp, ISBN 0674011910 Introducing Policing: Challenges for Police and Australian Communities By Mark Findlay; (2004) Melbourne, Australia: Oxford University Press, 190 pp, ISBN 0 19 551621 4 Bin Laden in the Suburbs: Criminalising the Arab Other By Scott Poynting, Greg Noble, Paul Tabar and Jock Collins; (2004) Sydney, Australia, The Sydney Institute of Criminology & Federation Press, 333 pp, ISBN 0975196707 The Practice of Research in Criminology and Criminal Justice (2nd ed.) By Ronet Bachman and Russell Schutt; (2003) Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press, xxiii + 405 pp, ISBN 0761928774
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Dalton, Vicki. "Death and Dying in Prison in Australia: National Overview, 1980–1998." Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 27, no. 3 (1999): 269–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-720x.1999.tb01461.x.
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This paper discusses the role of the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) in monitoring inmate deaths in custody on a national basis. It also provides a descriptive overview of Australian Indigenous and non-Indigenous inmate deaths in custody during the eighteen-year period between 1980 and 1998.In October 1987, the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (RCIADIC) commenced investigating the deaths of Australia's Indigenous people in custody throughout Australia between January 1, 1980 and May 31, 1989. RCIADIC's task was to examine the circumstances of the deaths; the actions taken by authorities; and the underlying causes of Indigenous deaths in custody, including social, cultural, and legal factors. The investigation found that the major factor contributing to the high number of Indigenous deaths in custody was the disproportionately higher rates at which Indigenous people come into contact with the criminal justice system. RCIADIC concluded that the most significant reason for this contact was the severely disadvantaged social, economic, and cultural position of many Indigenous people.
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Pradeepa, M., and M. Priya. "Gregory David Roberts and His Shantaram: An Overview." Shanlax International Journal of English 9, S1-i2-Dec (December 22, 2020): 58–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.34293/english.v9is1-i2-dec.3696.
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In the list of Australian literary contribution, Gregory David Roberts draws a number of generic conventions to produce his noteworthy, Shantaram. The novel has acquired certain academic considerations also. Cosmopolitanism influences prominently in the novel which has allows it to transcend national boundaries. The novel is anomalous in the Australian literary landscape when considered its popularity. The entrepreneurial approach of Roberts to promote his writing which is closely bounded by criminology and its persona impact the ongoing success of the novel in Australia and other countries. The present article overviews the reviews and opinions of Roberts and his Shantaram, from media.
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Wood, Mark A., Imogen Richards, Mary Iliadis, and Michael McDermott. "Digital Public Criminology in Australia and New Zealand: Results from a Mixed Methods Study of Criminologists’ Use of Social Media." International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy 8, no. 4 (July 29, 2019): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.v8i4.956.
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The proliferation of social media in the ‘post-broadcast era’ has profoundly altered the terrain for researchers to produce public scholarship and engage with the public. To date, however, the impact of social media on public criminology has not been subject to empirical inquiry. Drawing from a dataset of 116 surveys and nine interviews, our mixed-methods study addresses this opening in the literature by examining how criminologists in Australia and New Zealand have employed social media to engage in public criminology. This article presents findings from surveys that examine the practices and perceptions of criminologists in relation to social media, and insights from an analysis that explores the political and logistical issues raised by respondents. These issues include the democratising potential of social media in criminological research, and its ability to provide representation for historically marginalised populations. Questions pertaining to ‘newsmaking criminology’ and the wider performance of ‘public criminology’ on social media are also addressed.
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Pickering, Sharon, and Caroline Lambert. "Immigration Detention Centres, Human Rights and Criminology in Australia." Current Issues in Criminal Justice 13, no. 2 (November 2001): 219–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10345329.2001.12036227.
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Weekers, Damian P., Renee Zahnow, and Lorraine Mazerolle. "Conservation Criminology: Modelling Offender Target Selection for Illegal Fishing in Marine Protected Areas." British Journal of Criminology 59, no. 6 (March 27, 2019): 1455–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azz020.
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AbstractThe emergence of conservation criminology over the past decade provides a unique insight into patterns of wildlife crime. Wildlife crime has a dramatic impact on many vulnerable species and represents a significant challenge to the management of protected areas around the world. This paper contributes to the field of conservation criminology by examining the travel patterns of fishing poachers in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park in Australia. The results demonstrate that distance is a key feature of offender target selection, reflecting the established environmental criminology concept of distance decay. The analysis also reveals a significant relationship between individual no-take zones and regional population areas. The applicability of a nodal-oriented approach to wildlife crime prevention is discussed.
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Morrison, Shona. "Custodial Suicide in Australia: A Comparative Study of Different Populations." Medicine, Science and the Law 36, no. 2 (April 1996): 167–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002580249603600213.
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Research on custodial suicide has run into immense difficulties in its attempt to identify common characteristics of the suicide-prone inmate. In 1993, Haycock recognized these difficulties and called for comparative research to delineate the different risks posed by different sorts of confined populations. This paper contrasts the characteristics of different categories of confined inmates based on data collected by the Australian Institute of Criminology on deaths in custody within Australia between the years 1980 and 1993, inclusive. This form of research will lead to a greater understanding of the phenomenon of custodial suicide and the establishment of better preventive strategies tailored to the needs of specific groups and organizations.
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Parmar, Alpa, Rod Earle, and Coretta Phillips. "Race matters in criminology: Introduction to the Special Issue." Theoretical Criminology 24, no. 3 (June 12, 2020): 421–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1362480620930016.
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As race scholars and criminologists we are attuned to Du Bois’s (2007: 106) still meaningful injunction to ‘oppose this national racket of railroading to jails and chain gangs the poor, the friendless and the Black’. Yet we have become concerned that criminology seems rather inured to the long-standing and deeply entrenched patterns of race and criminal justice which characterize many high-income countries, and certainly England and Wales and Australia, which are the geographical focus of this Special Issue of Theoretical Criminology.
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Iliadis, Mary, Imogen Richards, and Mark A. Wood. "Newsmaking criminology in Australia and New Zealand: Results from a mixed methods study of criminologists’ media engagement." Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology 53, no. 1 (June 6, 2019): 84–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0004865819854794.
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‘Newsmaking criminology’, as described by Barak, is the process by which criminologists contribute to the generation of ‘newsworthy’ media content about crime and justice, often through their engagement with broadcast and other news media. While newsmaking criminological practices have been the subject of detailed practitioner testimonials and theoretical treatise, there has been scarce empirical research on newsmaking criminology, particularly in relation to countries outside of the United States and United Kingdom. To illuminate the state of play of newsmaking criminology in Australia and New Zealand, in this paper we analyse findings from 116 survey responses and nine interviews with criminologists working in universities in these two countries, which provide insight into the extent and nature of their news media engagement, and their related perceptions. Our findings indicate that most criminologists working in Australia or New Zealand have made at least one news media appearance in the past two years, and the majority of respondents view news media engagement as a professional ‘duty’. Participants also identified key political, ethical, and logistical issues relevant to their news media engagement, with several expressing a view that radio and television interviewers can influence criminologists to say things that they deem ‘newsworthy’.
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Jobes, Patrick C., and Joseph F. Donnermeyer. "Preaching to the Choir: A Comparison of the Use of Integrated Data Sets in Criminology Journals in Australia, England and the United States." Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology 35, no. 1 (April 2002): 79–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1375/acri.35.1.79.
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Empirical analyses of crime increasingly rely on integrated data. This paper considers advantages and limitations of integrated data sets, comparative uses of such data in The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, British Journal of Criminology and Criminology, as well as speculations based on these findings. Integrated data analysis has amplified methodological issues. The reliability of secondary data analysis is both supported and challenged. Relevant questions include how crime is associated with actuarial measures and which measures are most reliable. The more difficult question is whether actuarial measures are valid indicators. One extreme empirical orientation, positivism, relies on empirical, often quantitative, data, and scientific method to derive conclusions and guide policy (Young, 1992a). The other extreme relies on discourse and persuasion. Implications of relying on or rejecting actuarialism are discussed in the context of integrated data research published in the above-mentioned criminology journals.
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Lindley, Jade, and Liam Quinn. "Compliance in recreational fisheries: Case study of two blue swimmer crab fisheries." PLOS ONE 18, no. 1 (January 6, 2023): e0279600. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0279600.
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Comparing two Australian regions, Western Australia (WA) and South Australia (SA), this research investigates official noncompliance datasets of recreational blue swimmer crab (Portunus armatus) fishing between 2009 and 2019. These recreational fisheries in both jurisdictions are license-free and therefore participating fisher information is limited. Analyses provide a glimpse at the (noncompliant) fisher population profiles against the application of management strategies. The data provide (1) an evidence-base to optimize regulatory strategies by balancing education and enforcement activities with recreational fisher enjoyment. The results of this research enable application within and beyond these fisheries and jurisdictions; and (2) drawing from the criminology discipline, deterrence theory offers insight to enhance compliance tools. Further, it shows the importance of a multi-disciplinary approach to assessing compliance and identifies some practical approaches to data collection that can be readily undertaken to assist with more detailed analysis and enhance compliance strategies.
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Cunneen, Chris, and Juan Marcellus Tauri. "Indigenous Peoples, Criminology, and Criminal Justice." Annual Review of Criminology 2, no. 1 (January 13, 2019): 359–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-criminol-011518-024630.
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This review provides a critical overview of Indigenous peoples’ interactions with criminal justice systems. It focuses on the experiences of Indigenous peoples residing in the four major Anglo-settler-colonial jurisdictions of Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States. The review is built around a number of key arguments, including that centuries of colonization have left Indigenous peoples across all four jurisdictions in a position of profound social, economic, and political marginalization; that the colonial project, especially the socioeconomic marginalization resulting from it, plays a significant role in the contemporary over-representation of Indigenous peoples in settler-colonial criminal justice systems; and that a key failure of both governments and the academy has been to disregard Indigenous peoples responses to social harm and to rely too heavily on Western theorizing, policy, and practice to solve the problem of Indigenous over-representation. Finally, we argue that little will change to reduce the negative nature of Indigenous–criminal justice interactions until the settler-colonial state and the discipline of criminology show a willingness to support Indigenous peoples’ desire for self-determination and for leadership in the response to the social harms that impact their communities.
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Barnes, Ash, and Rob White. "Mapping Emotions: Exploring the Impact of the Aussie Farms Map." Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice 36, no. 3 (March 6, 2020): 303–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1043986220910306.
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Counter-mapping refers to the public dissemination by activist groups of maps that visually document particular harms and offenders or sites of justice and prior ownership. Drawing upon green criminology, this article analyses the consequences of using counter-mapping as an activist tool. It examines how media framing of the Aussie Farms map is constructed around particularly polarizing narratives. This interactive map demonstrates the location and proliferation of animal agriculture and animal exploitation industries within Australia. Media framing has generated heated debate among Australian farmers and activists alike by inciting deeply emotional responses to the issues. We explore these common media narratives and their consequences for activists and tools such as counter-maps.
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Thearle, M. John. "The Rise and Fall of Phrenology in Australia." Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 27, no. 3 (September 1993): 518–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/00048679309075812.
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In the first half of the nineteenth century phrenology, which was claimed to be the first science of the mind, experienced enormous popularity in the western world. It gave rise to a widespread movement attracting the attention of the professional and lay members of society. In Australia, as elsewhere, it had influence in penology and criminology, psychiatry, notions of racial inferiority, education, anthropology and popular application. By the second half of the nineteenth century, following advances in the knowledge of neuro-anatomy, it became relegated to the status of a pseudo-science. As such, it remained popular with charlatans and the public well into the twentieth century.
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Tomasic, Roman, and Brendan Pentony. "The prosecution of insider trading: Obstacles to enforcement." Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology 22, no. 2 (June 1989): 65–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000486588902200201.
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Insider trading has been criminalised in Australia for over a decade. Yet there have been few prosecutions in respect of such conduct, and none of these have been successful. There is little doubt that insider trading in Australia is extensive and is to be found across many sectors of the securities industry. Despite this, the law has not proved to be an effective vehicle for the social control of insider trading or for the deterrence of such conduct. It seems that the criminal sanctions for insider trading have been largely symbolic in nature. This article explores the obstacles to enforcement of criminal laws in this area by reference to findings from a national empirical study funded by the Criminology Research Council. The study involved in-depth interviews with almost 100 key figures in the Australian securities industry (brokers, lawyers, merchant bankers etc) and of officials involved in its regulation (from the Corporate Affairs Commissions and the Australian Stock Exchange). Problems in detection, proof and punishment, in the nature and extent of regulatory resources devoted to this area and in the content of the law itself are identified and discussed.
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Kennedy, Sally, and Ian Warren. "Southern Criminology, Law and the ‘Right’ to Consular Notification in Australia, New Zealand and the United States." International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy 7, no. 4 (December 1, 2018): 100–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.v7i4.1082.
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This paper investigates the implementation of Article 36 of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations in Australia, New Zealand and the United States (US) by using a Southern approach to examining law. We describe the incorporation of Article 36 from a defendant-centred perspective under Australian and New Zealand laws governing police procedure, and the commensurate jurisdictional tensions it has generated in the US. We then empirically analyse 16 non-capital US cases to identify the type of offence, the nationality and perceived English-speaking competency of the foreign suspect, and the point at which the alleged Article 36 violation is canvassed in legal arguments. This analysis highlights the importance of a defendant-centred Southern criminology of law in critically assessing the implementation of international legal requirements into domestic criminal justice practice.
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Potas, Ivan, and John Walker. "Sentencing Federal Drug Offenders in Australia: A Pilot Study." Journal of Drug Issues 16, no. 2 (April 1986): 221–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002204268601600209.
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This paper is a shortened version of a study undertaken by the Australian Institute of Criminology in 1982. The study's aim was to review the extent of sentencing disparity relating exclusively to drug offenders at the Federal level. Some 300 sentencing decisions decided between 1976 and 1980 were examined, and it was found that when drug type and quantity of drug were taken into account, together with a further discrete number of other factors, differences between sentences were very slight. In the course of the study a novel sentencing chart was devised and the present article describes the key features of the methodology used.
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Carey, Lukas, Andreas Aresti, and Sacha Darke. "What Are the Barriers to the Development of Convict Criminology in Australia?" Journal of Prisoners on Prisons 30, no. 1 (February 26, 2022): 77–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.18192/jpp.v30i1.6224.
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Karystianis, George, Wilson Lukmanjaya, Paul Simpson, Peter Schofield, Natasha Ginnivan, Goran Nenadic, Marina van Leeuwen, Iain Buchan, and Tony Butler. "An Analysis of PubMed Abstracts From 1946 to 2021 to Identify Organizational Affiliations in Epidemiological Criminology: Descriptive Study." Interactive Journal of Medical Research 11, no. 2 (December 5, 2022): e42891. http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/42891.
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Background Epidemiological criminology refers to health issues affecting incarcerated and nonincarcerated offender populations, a group recognized as being challenging to conduct research with. Notwithstanding this, an urgent need exists for new knowledge and interventions to improve health, justice, and social outcomes for this marginalized population. Objective To better understand research outputs in the field of epidemiological criminology, we examined the lead author’s affiliation by analyzing peer-reviewed published outputs to determine countries and organizations (eg, universities, governmental and nongovernmental organizations) responsible for peer-reviewed publications. Methods We used a semiautomated approach to examine the first-author affiliations of 23,904 PubMed epidemiological studies related to incarcerated and offender populations published in English between 1946 and 2021. We also mapped research outputs to the World Justice Project Rule of Law Index to better understand whether there was a relationship between research outputs and the overall standard of a country’s justice system. Results Nordic countries (Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Denmark) had the highest research outputs proportional to their incarcerated population, followed by Australia. University-affiliated first authors comprised 73.3% of published articles, with the Karolinska Institute (Sweden) being the most published, followed by the University of New South Wales (Australia). Government-affiliated first authors were on 8.9% of published outputs, and prison-affiliated groups were on 1%. Countries with the lowest research outputs also had the lowest scores on the Rule of Law Index. Conclusions This study provides important information on who is publishing research in the epidemiological criminology field. This has implications for promoting research diversity, independence, funding equity, and partnerships between universities and government departments that control access to incarcerated and offending populations.
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Lee, Murray. "Policing the Pedal Rebels: A Case Study of Environmental Activism Under COVID-19." International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy 10, no. 2 (June 1, 2021): 156–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.1887.
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Australia, along with nation-states internationally, has entered a new phase of environmentally focused activism, with globalised, coordinated and social media–enabled environmental social movements seeking to address human-induced climate change and related issues such as the mass extinction of species and land clearing. Some environmental protest groups such as Extinction Rebellion (XR) have attracted significant political, media and popular commentary for their sometimes theatrical and disruptive forms of nonviolent protest and civil disobedience. Drawing on green and cultural criminology, this article constitutes an autoethnographic account of environmental protest during the final stages of the initial COVID-19 lockdown in NSW, Australia. It takes as a case study a small protest by an XR subgroup called the Pedal Rebels. The article explores the policing of environmental protest from an activist standpoint, highlighting the extraordinary police resources and powers mobilised to regulate a small peaceful group of ‘socially distanced’ protesters operating within the existing public health orders. It places an autoethnographic description of this protest in the context of policing practice and green and cultural criminology. Additionally, it outlines the way in which such policing is emboldened by changes to laws affecting environmental protest, making activism an increasingly risky activity.
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Biles, David, and Vicki Dalton. "Deaths in Private and Public Prisons in Australia: A Comparative Analysis." Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology 34, no. 3 (December 2001): 293–301. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000486580103400306.
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Public opinion in Australia has been divided on the question of whether private prisons are welcome and one of the issues in dispute has been the question of whether or not private prisons are associated with proportionately more or fewer deaths of prisoners, particularly suicides, than public prisons. The available evidence is examined, and when the number of deaths, or suicides, per 1000 prisoner years served for all private and public prisons are calculated it is found that the rate for all deaths is significantly lower in private prisons at the 0.05 level of confidence. However, the difference in the suicide rates is not statistically significant.The lower overall death rate is particularly surprising as private prisons in Australia hold proportionately more unconvicted remandees,who are at higher risk, than public prisons. A close examination of the data for three relatively new remand and reception prisons, two private and one public, shows that all have much higher rates for both all deaths and for suicides than the national averages. This is an updated and expanded version of a paper by the same authors published by the Australian Institute of Criminology in June 1999. That paper was admitted into evidence at a coronial inquiry that was held into five deaths that occurred in the Port Phillip Prison in Victoria. Address for correspondence: D. Biles, 25 Kidston Cres, Curtin ACT 2605, Australia.
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Goldsmith, Andrew, Flinders University, Dorothy Goulding, Lyn Hinds, and David Brown. "Reviews." Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology 36, no. 2 (August 2003): 231–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1375/acri.36.2.231.
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When Police Unionise: The Politics of Law and Order in Australia; By Mark Finnane (2002) Sydney: Hawkins Press, 258pp, ISBN 1864874643 Behind Bars: Surviving Prison; By J.I. Ross & S.C. Richards (2002) Indeanapolis, USA:Alpha Books, 240 pp, ISBN 0028643518 Convict Criminology; By J.I. Ross & S.C. Richards (2002) California, USA:Thomson Wadsworth, 387 pp, ISBN 0534574335 Repair or Revenge: Victims and Restorative Justice.; By H. Strang (2002) Oxford: Clarendon Press, 320 pp, ISBN 0199251649 Punishment and Civilization; By John Pratt (2002) London: Sage Publications, 213 pp, ISBN 0761947531
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Turner, Jennifer, and Kimberley Peters. "Rethinking mobility in criminology: Beyond horizontal mobilities of prisoner transportation." Punishment & Society 19, no. 1 (August 1, 2016): 96–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1462474516654463.
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Typically, to be incarcerated is to be fixed: limited within specific parameters or boundaries with liberty and agency greatly reduced. Yet, recent literature has attended to the movement (or mobilities) that shape, or are shaped by modes of incarceration. Rather than simply assuming that experiences are inherently ones of immobility, such literature unhinges carceral studies from its framing within a sedentary ontology. However, the potential of mobility studies for unpacking the movements enfolded in carceral space and imprisoned life has yet to be fully exploited. When attending to mobilities, criminologists have investigated the politics of movement through a traditional horizontal frame of motion (between prison spaces, between court and prison, etc.). This paper contends that studies of mobility in criminology could be productively rethought. Drawing on movements of convicts from Britain to Australia aboard prison ships, this paper argues that straightforward, horizontal mobilities at work in regimes of control and practices of resistance marry together with vertical mobilities. Paying attention to the complex mobilities involved in carceral experience leads to a more nuanced understanding of regimes of discipline and practices of resistance that shape how incarcerated individuals move (or are unable to move) within carceral spaces, past and present.
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Sutton, Adam. "Crime Prevention: Promise or Threat?" Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology 27, no. 1 (June 1994): 5–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000486589402700103.
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In many Western countries, traditional criminal justice responses to crime are being questioned. Crime prevention has been endorsed as a policy objective by a range of governments including Australia's, with most States and Territories implementing programs. The paper summarises approaches to prevention and reviews promises and threats these developments pose. Promises include less divisive and ‘exclusionary’ modes of social control, and greater policy relevance for criminology. Threats include the possibility that organising social initiatives around crime prevention themes may detract attention from underlying structural issues, and that techniques of opportunity reduction and surveillance will extend social control and accelerate the ‘privatising’ of safety and security. The paper acknowledges the relevance of these critiques to current practice in Australia. However it argues that problems are due to political and economic pressures rather than to flaws in prevention theory itself. Criminologists should insist that prevention programs and strategies be located within the context of critical social theory.
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Jones, Jocelyn, Mandy Wilson, Elizabeth Sullivan, Lynn Atkinson, Marisa Gilles, Paul L. Simpson, Eileen Baldry, and Tony Butler. "Australian Aboriginal women prisoners’ experiences of being a mother: a review." International Journal of Prisoner Health 14, no. 4 (December 17, 2018): 221–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijph-12-2017-0059.
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PurposeThe rise in the incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mothers is a major public health issue with multiple sequelae for Aboriginal children and the cohesiveness of Aboriginal communities. The purpose of this paper is to review the available literature relating to Australian Aboriginal women prisoners’ experiences of being a mother.Design/methodology/approachThe literature search covered bibliographic databases from criminology, sociology and anthropology, and Australian history. The authors review the literature on: traditional and contemporary Aboriginal mothering roles, values and practices; historical accounts of the impacts of white settlement of Australia and subsequent Aboriginal affairs policies and practices; and women’s and mothers’ experiences of imprisonment.FindingsThe review found that the cultural experiences of mothering are unique to Aboriginal mothers and contrasted to non-Aboriginal concepts. The ways that incarceration of Aboriginal mothers disrupts child rearing practices within the cultural kinship system are identified.Practical implicationsAboriginal women have unique circumstances relevant to the concept of motherhood that need to be understood to develop culturally relevant policy and programs. The burden of disease and cycle of incarceration within Aboriginal families can be addressed by improving health outcomes for incarcerated Aboriginal mothers and female carers.Originality/valueTo the authors’ knowledge, this is the first literature review on Australian Aboriginal women prisoners’ experiences of being a mother.
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Pooley, Kamarah, and Claire E. Ferguson. "Using environmental criminology theories to compare ‘youth misuse of fire’ across age groups in New South Wales." Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology 50, no. 1 (July 27, 2016): 100–122. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0004865815596794.
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Youth misuse of fire is a substantive community concern. Despite evidence which indicates youths account for a significant proportion of all deliberately lit fires within Australia, an absence of up-to-date, contextually specific research means the exact scope and magnitude of youth misuse of fire within Australia remains unknown. Despite research suggesting commonalities exist between youth misuse of fire and juvenile offending more broadly, misuse of fire is rarely explained using criminological theory. In light of this gap, a descriptive analysis of youth misuse of fire within New South Wales was performed. Routine Activity Theory and Crime Pattern Theory were tested to explain differences in misuse of fire across age groups. Results suggest these environmental theories offer useful frameworks for explaining youth misuse of fire in New South Wales. It is argued that the Routine Activity Theory and Crime Pattern Theory can be employed to better inform youth misuse of fire policy and prevention efforts.
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Morgan, Frank, Anna Ferrante, Rod Broadhurst, and Nini Loh. "Inter-Racial Offending Models: A Response to Reidpath and Diamond." Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology 31, no. 2 (August 1998): 196–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000486589803100206.
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We present a critique of a paper on inter-racial offending by Reidpath and Diamond (1998). That paper draws upon, but misrepresents, three publications by researchers at the Crime Research Centre, University of Western Australia. Our critique provides a necessary clarification of the contents of the original research and includes a brief discussion of its context and purposes. While we point out a number of conceptual and numerical errors in the Reidpath and Diamond paper, we are more interested in advancing ideas on the role of modelling in criminology. Modelling exercises need to be closely linked to substantive explanation and theory if they are to avoid sterility.
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Tubex, Hilde. "The Revival of Comparative Criminology in a Globalised World: Local Variances and Indigenous Over‐representation." International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy 2, no. 3 (November 1, 2013): 55–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.v2i3.110.
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In this article, I first examine the viability of comparative criminological research in a globalised world. Further, I test the validity of some global explanatory models against the local situation in countries that appear to resist the dominant trend, such as the Netherlands and Canada. I then zoom in even further to the intra-national differences in some federal nations, such as Canada and Australia, where this situation is often linked to the overrepresentation of Indigenous people and the consequences of colonialism. Finally, I discuss the future of comparative criminological research.
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Clare, Joseph, John Fernandez, and Frank Morgan. "Formal Evaluation of the Impact of Barriers and Connectors on Residential Burglars' Macro-Level Offending Location Choices." Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology 42, no. 2 (August 2009): 139–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1375/acri.42.2.139.
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Previous research evaluating burglars' offending location choices has produced mixed findings about the influence of physical barriers and connectors on offender movement patterns. Consequently, this article utilises the discrete spatial choice approach to formally evaluate the impact of barriers and connectors on residential burglars' macro-level offending location choices. Data from Perth, Western Australia, demonstrated that physical barriers and connectors exert significant influence on offender decision-making at this level, and that the influence of impermeable barriers increases with proximity of these obstacles to the offender's point of origin. These findings provide formalised evidence for the independent importance of physical barriers and connectors in offender movement and are discussed with respect to current environmental criminology theory.
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Walby, Kevin, and Alex Luscombe. "Ethics review and freedom of information requests in qualitative research." Research Ethics 14, no. 4 (January 1, 2018): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1747016117750208.
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Freedom of information (FOI) requests are increasingly used in sociology, criminology and other social science disciplines to examine government practices and processes. University ethical review boards (ERBs) in Canada have not typically subjected researchers’ FOI requests to independent review, although this may be changing in the United Kingdom and Australia, reflective of what Haggerty calls ‘ethics creep’. Here we present four arguments for why FOI requests in the social sciences should not be subject to formal ethical review by ERBs. These four arguments are: existing, rigorous bureaucratic vetting; double jeopardy; infringement of citizenship rights; and unsuitable ethics paradigm. In the discussion, we reflect on the implications of our analysis for literature on ethical review and qualitative research, and for literature on FOI and government transparency.
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Mulrooney, Kyle, Alistair Harkness, and Huw Nolan. "Farm Crime and Farmer-Police Relationships in Rural Australia." International Journal of Rural Criminology 7, no. 1 (October 24, 2022): 24–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.18061/ijrc.v7i1.9106.
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This article presents select findings from ‘farm crime’ victimisation surveys undertaken in the two most populous Australian states of New South Wales and Victoria. We examine the findings in relation to farmer crime victimisation, their willingness to report crime, and their worry about crime, as well as farmer perspectives on policing generally and the policing of farm crime specifically. In both states, there are high levels of victimisation, high levels of worry, low- to mid-levels of confidence in the police, and there remains a gap between experiences of farm crime and reporting. Both states have police tasked specifically with addressing farm crime. The Victoria Police have Farm Crime Liaison Officers that specialise in assisting with farm related crimes, however this is a voluntary role which forms part of an officer’s larger workload. By contrast, the New South Wales Police Force Rural Crime Prevention Team is a dedicated team consisting of specialised rural crime investigators and intelligence practitioners focused on proactive and preventative interventions in farm crime. Farmers in both states were surveyed regarding their awareness and engagement with these rural policing teams, and we examined how this may shape victimisation, reporting, worry and the relationships between police and farmers. In New South Wales, awareness and direct contact with rural crime police led to both increased satisfaction with police and crime reporting. Respondents with awareness of this team also express significantly less worry of crime, whilst those with direct contact did not. We conclude the article by discussing and contextualising these findings within rural criminology and considering ways forward for the policing of farm crime.
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Xiong, Lin, Christopher Nyland, Bonnie Sue Fisher, and Kosmas X. Smyrnios. "International students’ fear of crime: an Australian case study." Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology 50, no. 1 (July 27, 2016): 77–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0004865815608676.
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Concerns about safety and fear of being victimised by crime have become important factors determining international students’ decisions of where to study. Host governments and educational agencies have introduced a range of programs to ease such concerns. However, these recommendations are seldom informed by the criminology literature on fear of crime and the effectiveness of most of these practices has been rarely tested. Drawing upon a survey on 610 international students studying in Melbourne, Australia, during the period of 2009 and 2010, this paper finds that an overwhelming majority of international students have experienced racially oriented victimisation and have feared that they may be victimised because of their ethnic origin. Opportunities for socialization help international students feel safe about an environment, but it also increases their levels of fear of crime. Perceived social disorder makes international students feel unsafe and heightens their levels of fear of being victimised. Findings provide important implications for a range of stakeholders in countries that host international students.
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Farrington, David P., Ellen G. Cohn, and Amaia Iratzoqui. "Who Are the Most-Cited Scholars in Asian Criminology Compared with Australia, New Zealand, North America, and Europe?" Asian Journal of Criminology 14, no. 1 (November 13, 2018): 61–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11417-018-9279-8.
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Tubex, Hilde. "Reach and Relevance of Prison Research." International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy 4, no. 1 (April 1, 2015): 4–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.v4i1.200.
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In this contribution I reflect on the changes in the penal landscape and how they impact on prison research. I do this from my experiences as a prison researcher in a variety of roles, in both Europe and Australia. The growing dominance of managerialism has impacted on both corrective services and universities, in ways that have changed the relationship between current prison practices and academically oriented research. Therefore, academics have to question how their contemporary prison research can bridge the emerging gap: how they can not only produce research that adheres to the roots of criminology and provides a base for a rational penal policy, but also how they can develop strategies to get recognition of and funding for this broader contextual work which, although it might not produce results that are immediately identifiable, can be of relevance in indirect ways and in the longer term.
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Wimshurst, Kerry, and Troy Allard. "Criminal Justice Education, Employment Destinations, and Graduate Satisfaction." Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology 40, no. 2 (August 2007): 218–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1375/acri.40.2.218.
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The article addresses the lack of sound empirical research both overseas and especially in Australia on the outcomes of criminal justice education. The very limited research on graduate outcomes is potentially problematic at a time when governments are increasingly calling for program accountability and evaluation in higher education. The article reports on an empirical study of one criminology/criminal justice program that investigated the employment destinations of graduates. Principal components analysis and regression analyses were used to explore graduate satisfaction with their degree. There was evidence that educational outcomes were important considerations when alumni evaluated their degree. However, findings indicated that satisfaction varied considerably between occupational groups and was influenced by employment experiences and perceived ‘success’ in the workforce. The article addresses various themes emerging from the findings and identifies the need for further research across other programs on the outcomes of criminal justice education and graduate destinations.
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Ramilo, Chat Carcia. "Chris Cunneen & Julie Stubbs Gender ‘Race’ and International Relations: Violence Against Filipino Women in Australia Institute of Criminology." Current Issues in Criminal Justice 10, no. 1 (July 1998): 109–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10345329.1998.12036120.
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Carrington, Kerry. "Girls and Violence: The Case for a Feminist Theory of Female Violence." International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy 2, no. 2 (September 11, 2013): 63–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.v2i2.101.
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Rises recorded for girls’ violence in countries like Australia, Canada, United Kingdom and United States have been hotly contested. One view is these rising rates of violence are an artefact of new forms of policy, policing, criminalisation and social control over young women. Another view is that young women may indeed have become more violent as they have increasingly participated in youth subcultural activities involving gangs and drugs, and cyber-cultural activities that incite and reward girls’ violence. Any comprehensive explanation will need to address how a complex interplay of cultural, social, behavioural, and policy responses contribute to these rises. This article argues that there is no singular cause, explanation or theory that accounts for the rises in adolescent female violence, and that many of the simple explanations circulating in popular culture are driven by an anti-feminist ideology. By concentrating on females as victims of violence and very rarely as perpetrators, feminist criminology has for the most part ducked the thorny issue of female violence, leaving a discursive space for anti-feminist sentiment to reign. The article concludes by arguing the case for developing a feminist theory of female violence.
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Rawlinson, Paddy. "Immunity and Impunity: Corruption in the State-Pharma Nexus." International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy 6, no. 4 (November 14, 2017): 86–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.v6i4.447.
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Critical criminology repeatedly has drawn attention to the state-corporate nexus as a site of corruption and other forms of criminality, a scenario exacerbated by the intensification of neoliberalism in areas such as health. The state-pharmaceutical relationship, which increasingly influences health policy, is no exception. That is especially so when pharmaceutical products such as vaccines, a burgeoning sector of the industry, are mandated in direct violation of the principle of informed consent. Such policies have provoked suspicion and dissent as critics question the integrity of the state-pharma alliance and its impact on vaccine safety. However, rather than encouraging open debate, draconian modes of governance have been implemented to repress and silence any form of criticism, thereby protecting the activities of the state and pharmaceutical industry from independent scrutiny. The article examines this relationship in the context of recent legislation in Australia to intensify its mandatory regime around vaccines. It argues that attempts to undermine freedom of speech, and to systematically excoriate those who criticise or dissent from mandatory vaccine programs, function as a corrupting process and, by extension, serve to provoke the notion that corruption does indeed exist within the state-pharma alliance.
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Peters, Timothy D. "Symposium: Drawing the Human." Law, Technology and Humans 2, no. 2 (November 23, 2020): 114–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/lthj.1766.
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What does it mean to be human today in our globalised, technologised and hypermediated world? How do our modes of cultural representation relate to, affect and effect the role of being human? This special issue of Law, Technology and Humans seeks to explore the form of the comic as one means to address these questions. Comics are a means of cultural representation and discourse that not only reflect but refract — through their deployment of word and image, of grid and gutter, of both visual and textual mediation — the very means of human interaction and intersubjectivity. Arising out of the 2019 Graphic Justice Research Alliance conference, hosted by the School of Law and Criminology (now the School of Law and Society) at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia, the papers collected here examine not only the way in which comics and graphic art present narratives of law and justice, or representations of human rights and their abuses, but also the way in which comics in their form and multimodality call into question the law’s drawing of the boundaries of the human as it is challenged by its relation to the non-human, the environment and technology.
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Kimpton, Anthony, Jonathan Corcoran, and Rebecca Wickes. "Greenspace and Crime." Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 54, no. 3 (September 1, 2016): 303–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022427816666309.
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Objectives: There is a growing interest in the relationship between greenspace and crime, yet how particular greenspace types encourage or inhibit the timing and types of greenspace crime remains largely unexplored. Drawing upon recent advances in environmental criminology, we introduce an integrated suite of methods to examine the spatial, temporal, and neighborhood dynamics of greenspace crime. Methods: We collate administrative, census, and crime incident data and employ cluster analysis, circular statistics, and negative binomial regression to examine violent, public nuisance, property, and drug crimes within 4,265 greenspaces across Brisbane, Australia. Results: We find that greenspace amenities, neighborhood social composition, and the presence of proximate crime generators influence the frequency and timing of greenspace crime. Conclusions: Our analyses reveal that particular types of greenspaces are more crime prone than others. We argue that this is largely due to the presence of amenities within greenspaces allied with the sociodemographic context of surrounding neighborhoods. We conclude that understanding how these factors influence the behaviors of potential offenders, victims, and guardians is necessary to better understand the spatial distribution of greenspace crime and provide an evidence base for crime prevention initiatives.
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Prott, Lyndel. "“Illicit Traffic in Cultural Objects: Law Ethics and the Realities”: Workshop Co-organized by the Institute of Advanced Studies and the Law School of the University of Western Australia, Perth, 4–5 August 2011." International Journal of Cultural Property 18, no. 4 (November 2011): 453–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0940739111000427.
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Particularly in the 1980s and 1990s, universities and nongovernmental organizations, as well as UNESCO, have held innumerable meetings, workshops, and conferences on the subject of illicit traffic by. The “Illicit Traffic in Cultural Objects: Law Ethics and the Realities” workshop, however, is distinguished by two important elements. First, it emphasizes the importance of the issue for Asian and Pacific countries. Although there have been some meetings focused on the region of Asia—such as the meeting in Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka, in 2003; one in Bangkok in 2004; and one specifically including oceanic countries in Brisbane in 1996—these are few compared to meetings held on illicit traffic in Europe and North America. The second aspect is the range of expertise of the participants. Though we are used to seeing dealers, archaeologists, and lawyers debate the subject, this workshop included on-the-ground managers, an expert in systems of detection, as well as specialists in particular fields such as underwater heritage, postconflict restoration. and criminology.
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Ballsun-Stanton, Brian, Lise Waldek, and Julian Droogan. "Online Right-Wing Extremism: New South Wales, Australia." Proceedings 77, no. 1 (April 27, 2021): 18. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2021077018.
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Academics and policymakers recognize the absence of empirically grounded research to support the suppositions on which terrorist focused policies are based. (Sageman, Marc. 2014. “The Stagnation in Terrorism Research”. Terrorism and Political Violence 26 (4): 565–80) We developed our project, Mapping Networks and Narratives of Online Right-Wing Extremists in New South Wales, (Department of Security Studies and Criminology. 2020. Mapping Networks and Narratives of Online Right-Wing Extremists in New South Wales. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4071472) to illuminate this space. Using the analysis of large-scale online data to generate evidence-based insights into online Right-Wing Extremism (RWE) across the state, our research focused on four key questions: (1) What is the nature of the online RWE environment in New South Wales, Australia (NSW)? (2) How is this movement distributed across NSW? (3) How are themes and narratives framed in different online contexts to mobilize support? (4) What level of risk does the online right-wing environment pose? These questions were left purposely broad to facilitate an exploratory project into what was, in 2018–2019, still a relatively little studied milieu. We combined expertise from computational science, security studies, and behavioral science. We were funded by the Department of Communities and Justice, NSW. We identified two distinct—yet connected—levels of risk. The first was a creeping threat to democracy fueled by networks and content that challenged the fundamental principles of pluralistic liberal democracy. The second was a risk of violence perpetrated by individuals and/or groups that advocate and/or support the use of violence as a tactic to achieve an ideological end. The communities we examined were primarily characterized by networks of individuals as opposed to formal groups. The role played by individual influencers has important ramifications for policy communities: attention should be paid to issues of proscription and moderation. While this milieu engaged with Australian issues and events, it was notably far more obsessed with American issues: particularly those focused on populist narratives and Trumpism. Despite being hateful and extreme, online RWE communities are, firstly, spaces of sociability for users, where social networks are maintained by shared values and norms. For those involved, these spaces engender positive experiences: individuals might share an image of their dinner cooking in their kitchen interspersed with “shitposting” and virulent hate speech. While we identified a variety of narratives that focused on the delegitimization of government and dehumanization of others, the central theme was that of “white identity under threat”. We observed five distinct stages of moderation approach and echo chamber strength. A series of issues for future consideration were identified from the analysis: (1) Awareness raising for key stakeholders across different levels of government and civil society about the revolutionary and anti-social agenda of RWE communities. (2) Building awareness about the civic underpinnings of representative liberal democracy and the threat that RWE poses. (3) Expanding current Countering Violent Extremism infrastructure provided by the NSW government to individuals and communities vulnerable to right wing extremism. (4) The local government is well positioned to deliver programs in rural communities impacted by RWE. (5) Upskilling front-line workers to recognize the risks associated with RWE, and providing pathways into CVE intervention programs for individuals identified as being at-risk.
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Darmika, Ika. "Diversion and Restorative Justice in the Criminal Justice System of Children in Indonesia." Ijtimā'iyya: Journal of Muslim Society Research 3, no. 2 (September 28, 2018): 179–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.24090/ijtimaiyya.v3i2.1921.
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Diversity and Justice Justice is the norm in the Criminal Justice System in Indonesia, as regulated in Law Number 2012 on the System Juvenile Justice. The latest Law Number 11 Year 2012 was not available to be separated by UN Resolution Number 44.25 about Convention of the Rights which was ratified by the Indonesian Government dated January 26, January 1990 in the Presidential Decree No. 36 Year 1990. Convention on the Rights of the Children of the Republic of Indonesia was the basis of the consideration of the establishment of Law Number 11 of 2012 about Juvenile Criminal Justice System which replaced Law Number 3 1997 concerning Juvenile Court. At this time, there are a number of developed countries that have implemented diversion, among others is Australia. Australia has Act on Juvenile Crimes (The Young Offenders Act 1977).In which the Law gives the authority of lawyers (police)to do diversion child offender. This thing can be known from the purpose of the Juvenile Criminal Act Law. In Australia, the policymaking has the authority to do diversion in handling crime done by child. Authority is done with consideration: a) avoiding labeling or stigma which was caused by the effects of the system judicial justice. b) There are doubts about whether to progress from treatment to children. In Indonesia, regulated in Law Number 11 of 2012 about the Juvenile Criminal Justice System, which began after 2 years promulgated on July 30, 2012. In Law Number 11 of 2012, diversion was regulated in Article 17, Article 6 / Article 15. Regarding the restorative justice in developed countries, restorative justice not only in academic fields and practical practice and criminology North America, Australia, and some Europeans, restorative justice has been applied to all know the conventional criminal justice process, namely the investigation, prosecution, stage adjudication, and the stages of the trial. The justice-restructuring process looks for a facility dialogue between various parties affected by crime, including victims, perpetrators supporters and community are all over. Death involves the process that all parties who acted in crime were at the same time together to try to complete the scrutiny of how the negotiation after the crime has taken place Indonesia trial justice regulated in Article 1 Article 6, Article 5 (1) and Article 8 Section (1)Law Number 11 Year 2012.
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Singh, Jay P., Rabeea Assy, and Katrina I. Serpa. "Violence risk assessment practices in Israel: a preliminary survey investigation." Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research 11, no. 2 (April 8, 2019): 116–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jacpr-05-2018-0358.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the violence risk assessment practices in Israel by social workers, clinical criminologists, and marriage and family therapists using a Web-based survey. Design/methodology/approach A Web-based survey and participation letter were translated into Hebrew and distributed to members of the Israel Association of Social Workers, the Israel Society of Clinical Criminology and the Israel Association for Marital and Family Therapy following the Dillman Total Design Survey Method. Findings The sample was composed of 34 professionals, who reported using structured instruments to predict and manage the likelihood of violence in over half of their risk assessments over both their lifetime and the past 12 months. Younger female respondents who entered their profession more recently were more likely to use instruments during the risk assessment process. There appeared to be a trend toward decreased use of actuarial instruments and increased use in structured professional judgment instruments. Originality/value The first national survey of violence risk assessment practices by behavioral healthcare professionals in Israel was conducted. This study revealed the risk assessment utility trends in Israel, finding that compared to professionals in North America, South America, Europe, East Asia and Australia, professionals in Israel conducted fewer risk assessments and used structured instruments less often, highlighting concern about the lack of reliance on evidence-based techniques in the country.
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Taylor, Emmeline. "Mobile payment technologies in retail: a review of potential benefits and risks." International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management 44, no. 2 (February 8, 2016): 159–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijrdm-05-2015-0065.
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Purpose – Retailers and suppliers are facing the challenge of reconfiguring systems to accommodate increasingly mobile customers expecting multichannel options supporting quick and secure digital payment. The purpose of this paper is to harness the learning from the implementation of self-checkout and combines it with available information relating to mobile scanning and mobile point-of-sale (MPOS). Design/methodology/approach – In review of the literature, the paper provides an overview of different modes of mobile payment systems, and a consideration of some of the benefits that they offer to retailers and their customers. The main focus, drawing upon telephone interviews with retail security professionals in Australia and New Zealand, is on anticipating and mitigating against the potential risks, vulnerabilities and impact on shrinkage. Findings – With the market being flooded with software and products, retailers are exposed to a compelling case for mobile payment, but it was found that they are not as cognisant of the potential risks. Research limitations/implications – Further research is needed on the different permutations of mobile POS and how it impacts on the customer journey and rates of internal and external theft. Practical implications – Suggestions for future empirical research on the risks and vulnerabilities that moving to mobile payment can usher in are provided. Originality/value – The paper links research from diverse fields, in particular criminology, to elucidate the potential impact of mobile technologies on retail theft and internal technological and process issues, before offering possible solutions.
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Carson, Kit, and Pat O'Malley. "The Institutional Foundations of Contemporary Australian Criminology." Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology 25, no. 3 (December 1989): 333–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/144078338902500301.
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