CrimNet

16 July 2024

Institute member, Dr. Carolyn McKay was interviewed by the NSW Law Society Journal on deepfakes. 

Please read here.

Current Issues in Criminal Justice (CICJ) provides detailed analysis of national and international issues by a range of outstanding contributors. It includes contemporary comments, with discussion at the cutting edge of the crime and justice debate, as well as reviews of recently released books.

CICJ accepts submissions on a rolling basis.

Editor: Professor Colin King, member of the Sydney Institute of Criminology

You can access current (Volume 36 (3), 2024) and previous issues of Current Issues in Criminal Justice here.

If you have a book suitable for review by CICJ, please email the books editor, Celine Van Golde at celine.vangolde@sydney.edu.au 

For more updates, follow CICJ on X here.

The Past, Present and Future of the Palestine Investigation

In-person event

Date: Thursday 17 July 2024 1-2pm

Venue: UNSW Law & Justice

On May 20th, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan KC, announced that his Office had applied for arrest warrants against three senior Hamas leaders and two high-ranking Israeli government officials. This talk, which is based on Kevin Heller's role as Special Adviser on War Crimes to the Prosecutor, will discuss the past, present, and future of the investigation in Palestine. He will explain what a Special Adviser does, provide a history of the Palestine investigation, discuss the arrest-warrant applications, and offer a few thoughts for what the future might hold for the warrants and the investigation more generally. The event will draw on Prof. Heller’s expertise and involvement in the Palestine investigation to inform us all about the process and what we can expect from here.

Please register here.

About the role 

The Lecturer, Criminology primarily contributes to teaching, research and community engagement in the Criminology, Justice and Social Policy discipline in the School of Health and Society. We encourage applicants with backgrounds in criminology and expertise in one or more of the following areas: criminological theory, criminal justice institutions, youth justice, cultural criminology, and digital criminology. Program leadership experience will be highly regarded.

This position will contribute to the development of innovative and world class research and teaching programs, achieved through collaborative research projects with academic colleagues, community and industry partners; innovative curricula that meet TEQSA and professional standards; effective partnerships with the community, professionals, government and non-government agencies; and productive collaborative arrangements with academic colleagues. Your research will be nationally recognised and connected.

This role will have specific responsibility for development, teaching and coordination of agreed subjects and will include course leadership of the Bachelor of Criminology for the first three years. The position’s teaching responsibilities will require scholarly approaches to content delivery and skill development, and application of evidence-based pedagogy and methods, including flexible delivery, e- learning and inclusive practice.

How to Apply

You will be prompted to respond to a selection criteria questionnaire as part of the application process. Please also attach your CV to your application. 

For further information about this position, please contact Natalia Hanley on

+ 61 2 4221 4967 or nhanley@uow.edu.au 

Closing Date: Thursday 8 August 2024, 11:59 PM

Apply here.

The University of New South Wales Law Journal is currently seeking submissions for the thematic component of Issue 48(2), titled ‘Dynamics of Power within Criminal Law’. The Call for Submissions, which includes more details concerning the scope of submissions sought and information regarding the submission process, can be found here.

The University of New South Wales Law Journal is one of Australia’s leading scholarly journals. It enjoys a diverse and influential readership, and is one of the most widely cited legal reviews in Australia. Submissions for publication are received from local and international academics, judges and legal professionals from a wide range of practice areas.

The submission deadline for the thematic component of Issue 48(2) is 15 November 2024. The Issue is set to be published in July 2025.

Announcing a special issue of the International Journal of Rural Criminology (IJRC) inspired by a recent symposium at the University of New England (AU) on rural disasters and their impact on crime and emergency management. We are inviting submissions that explore the complex relationship between various types of disasters and their effects on rural communities, with a focus on prevention, response, and recovery.

Key Dates:

Abstracts due: August 2nd, 2024
Notification of abstract acceptance: August 30, 2024
Manuscript submission: December 20, 2024
Estimated publication date: July, 2025

Topics can include, but are not limited to:
• Rural crime and disaster dynamics
• Policing and emergency management
• Access to justice
• Supporting vulnerable populations
• Intersections of violence
• Safety in regional contexts
• Environmental challenges
• Animals in disasters
• Community recovery
• Substance use post-disaster
• Political and community reactions

Submission types and word count:
• Full-length articles: 6,000-10,000 words
• Research notes: 3,000-6,000 words
• Policy and practice: Notes from the field: 3,000-8,000 words
• Reviews of books: 3,000-7,000 words

The IJRC is especially keen on contributions from practitioners (police, community recovery, local government, emergency services more broadly, etc.).

Please send any questions and/or submissions to Kyle Mulrooney, Editor in Chief, at kmulroon@une.edu.au.

The IJRC is the flagship journal of Rural Criminology, with a strong international presence and profile. All submissions are peer-reviewed, and publications are open-access. For more information, visit https://lnkd.in/gxpcYKwM.

In May 2024, the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission (‘the Commission’) tabled in Parliament an Issues Paper on the practises of the NSW Police Force for checking compliance with bail conditions. The paper particularly explores the issue of enforcement conditions imposed as part of bail. The Commission is now keen to assess the effectiveness and appropriateness of the NSW Police Force approach to conducting bail compliance checks and whether the legislative framework is sufficiently clear on how police can lawfully conduct bail compliance checks.  

The Commission seeks public submissions on a range of issues to assist our consideration of current practices under the legislative framework. It hopes the legal profession and experts in legal and policing issues will contribute to the exploration of these issues.

Your submissions will assist the LECC to form a view about those issues. Ultimately this work will culminate in a special report, under s 138 of the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission Act 2016.

There are eight specific questions that the Commission is seeking submissions on, which can be found here .

The call for submissions will remain open until 25 July 2024. 

To make a written submission please email or write to:

Email: engage@lecc.nsw.gov.au

Post: GPO Box 3880, Sydney NSW 2001

Submissions for the 2024 Criminology Research Grants (CRG) are now extended 

The Australian Institute of Criminology encourages applications from organisations or collaborative teams with a demonstrated capacity to deliver high quality criminological research outcomes. 

Applications will be assessed against the criteria prescribed in the approach to market advertised on AusTender. The following criteria may be considered when evaluating responses: 

•public policy relevance 

•the extent to which the proposed research will have practical application and contribute to the understanding, prevention or correction of criminal behaviour or otherwise support the objectives of Australian criminal justice systems 

•the likelihood of the proposed research making a substantial and original contribution to criminological knowledge 

•the cost effectiveness of the research 

•the soundness of the design and methodology, and the feasibility of the research 

•the competence and availability of the applicants(s) or principal investigators(s) to undertake the proposed research 

•ethics committee approval, where appropriate 

•availability of data, where required 

•the extent of funding or in-kind support obtained from relevant agencies. 

For more information or to make a submission please visit the  Aus Tender website. 

Important date - Applications extended to  25 July 2024. 

Please direct enquiries to the CRG Administrator on 02 6268 7450, 0406 109 885 or email crg@aic.gov.au . 

The juvenile justice system is under constant critique. But in this episode, LLB student Julia Jacobson talks to Associate Professor Garner Clancy about why there is reason to have hope in the future of youth justice in Australia. With an emphasis on the need for innovation and interdisciplinarity in the study of law, this episode reflects on the relationship between theory and practice.

Listen here .

Perpetration of sexual violence  a community sample of adult Australians

This study examines the rate of sexual violence perpetration in a community sample of adult Australians. Data were collected through a survey of a proportional quota-based sample of 5,076 Australian residents aged 18–45 years.

Findings address the pressing need for estimates of the prevalence of sexual violence perpetration in Australia, which are critical to efforts to address it.

Please read here.

The Australian Institute of Criminology has released its first Australian sexual offence statistical collection report which brings together police-recorded data on sexual offending, alleged offenders and victim-survivors to monitor the extent and nature of sexual offending across the country.

Please read here.

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