Sydney Institute of Criminology
CrimNet
02 March 2023
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Institute Events and Activities
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Book launch and panel discussion: LGBTQ organising in the new protest environment
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Beyond Punishment Seminar: Transforming rehabilitation through digital technology
Date: TONIGHT 02 March 2023
Time: 6 - 8 pm
Venue: Law Foyer, Level 2, New Law Building (F10), Eastern Avenue, University of Sydney (Camperdown Campus)
Institutions of criminal justice are not isolated from broader trends in society – and developments in the application of technologies in prisons have made it important to reconsider the role of digital technologies in rehabilitation.
What is the role of digital technologies in the context of the rehabilitative aim of prisons? What ought it to be? How is this role likely to develop in the future? And what challenges need to be borne in mind when answering these questions?
These issues will be the focus of the Beyond Punishment Seminar: Transforming Rehabilitation Through Digital Technology.
Moderator: Dr Allan McCay, Sydney Institute of Criminology, Deputy-Director
Chair: Dr Carolyn McKay, Sydney Institute of Criminology, Co-Director
Panel Members:
Luke Grant, Deputy Commissioner, Corrections Strategy and Governance, Corrective Services NSW
Renee Van Aaken, Acting Director – Reducing Recidivism (Premiers Priority) at Department of Communities and Justice
Steven Van De Steene, Smart Corrections
Professor Mark Halsey, Flinders University
This event is hosted by the Sydney Institute of Criminology in conjunction with Corrective Services NSW at the Sydney Law School.
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2022/23 Criminal Law CPD Series
The 2022-23 Criminal Law CPD series, presented by the Sydney Institute of Criminology is an innovative educational program made up of 7 recorded webinars delivered by eminent speakers from the University of Sydney and the legal profession.
Register for the full series or individual webinars and enjoy the flexibility of watching at your own pace from any location at any time. Quizzes will be included to test your comprehension of the material being discussed.
Information for lawyers and barristers
If this educational activity is relevant to your professional development and practice of the law, then you should claim 1.5 MCLE/CPD points per seminar attended.
Practitioners are advised to check with the CPD governing body in their jurisdiction for the most accurate and up-to-date information. Find out about interstate accreditation.
Cost: Full series (7 x webinars) = $300
Individual webinar(s) = $50
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Dr Andrew Dyer – Available now
It is common for people to deceive other people into engaging in sexual activity with them. But there is sharp division about whether all such deceitful people should be convicted of a sexual offence and, if all or some of them should, which offence(s) should be convicted of.
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Brett Hatfield – Available now
In a system subject to growing case numbers, increasingly regulated pre-trial processes, plea negotiations, and broad discretion, how are those priorities managed? Crown Prosecutor Brett Hatfield will consider those competing priorities and how they are balanced in practice.
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Associate Professor Helen Paterson – Available now
Eyewitness testimony can provide critical leads in investigations and can be extremely persuasive in court. However, inconsistencies or inaccuracies in eyewitness accounts can undermine the perceived credibility of the witness and the value of the evidence.
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Talitha Hennessy – Available now
During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, the administration of justice and essential services of courts continued through the increased use of communication technologies. The shift to digital or virtual justice in both civil and criminal jurisdictions accelerated with varying degrees of success.
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Professor David Hamer – Available now
Following the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Uniform Evidence Law jurisdictions are implementing reforms to the tendency and coincidence evidence provisions. These reforms aim to relax the exclusionary rules so that the prosecution can more readily rely upon other allegations against the defendant and the defendant’s prior guilty pleas.
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John Stratton SC – Available now
Appearing in the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal can be an intimidating prospect. Seeking leave, applications brought out of time, questions of law, questions of fact, mixed questions: senior criminal law barrister John Stratton SC will consider these issues and offer best-practice tips developed over the course of his career.
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9 March 2023 | Judge Paul Lakatos SC
Balancing the competing priorities of offenders with mental health diagnoses, the community, and the criminal justice system more broadly, is complicated. At the intersection of those interests sits the Mental Health Review Tribunal. The Tribunal endeavours to acknowledge and respect the dignity, autonomy, diversity and individuality of those whose matters it hears and determines. But how are these outcomes achieved?
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Current Issues in Criminal Justice
Special Issue Expressions of Interest
Current Issues in Criminal Justice (‘CICJ’) is the journal of the Sydney Institute of Criminology at the University of Sydney.
The Editor welcomes suggestions for special issue topics; and/or suggestions or self-nominations of individuals to guest edit a special edition in 2024 and beyond.
EOI deadline is Monday 3 April 2023.
Your EOI must include:
- The proposed title of the special issue;
- The name(s) of and contact information for the guest editor(s);
- A brief description of the scope of the special edition and a statement about its interest to the CICJ readership (2 paragraphs);
- A list of the manuscript titles and abstracts (if available) that would be included in the issue (title, name of author(s) and affiliations); and
- An indication of whether contributing authors have been approached and/or confirmed.
The date of the special issue is subject to negotiation between the editor and the guest editor(s). Please note that guest editor(s) will be responsible for arranging and assessing two double-blind peer review of each submission.
For information about our submission requirements including word limits, see here
Special Issue EOI will be assessed on the basis of likely readiness of all the manuscripts; diversity of contributors (institutions and levels), and contribution to the profile of CICJ.
Please email law.cicj@sydney.edu.au for queries.
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Queer criminology: resources on criminal justice issues facing LGBTIQ+ peoples
As Sydney hosts World Pride and the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival, Current Issues in Criminal Justice has put together a collection of articles on queer criminology as a resource for practitioners, policymakers and academics. The collection is free to access for February and March 2023.
LGBTIQ+ individuals and communities continue to face a range of challenges from criminal justice institutions. Queer criminology is a growing area of research that seeks to enhance and evaluate efforts to address the inequalities and discrimination faced by LGBTIQ+ people in the criminal justice context. This collection brings together articles on this topic over the last decade as a resource that helps to explain the current socio-legal context in Australian jurisdictions for LGBTIQ+ peoples.
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Current Issues in Criminal Justice
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.
You can access current 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
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NSW Custody Statistics: Quarterly update December 2022
BOCSAR, 22 February 2023
This report presents 24 months of reception, discharge and custody population data and comparisons between the current and previous quarter for age, gender, indigenous status, most serious offence and the average length of stay.
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New data: Recorded Crime Statistics December 2022
BOSCAR: 2 March 2023
The latest NSW Crime trends show that two of the 13 major offences significantly increased in the two years to December 2022. The remaining 11 major offences were stable.
The two offences trending upwards were:
- Motor vehicle theft (up 17.0%)
- Steal from retail (up 23.7%)
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Review of Consorting Law Amendments
Law Enforcement Conduct Commission, 28 February 2023
A Law Enforcement Conduct Commission review of consorting law amendments is recommending Parliament change the law so police cannot use it against children and only target serious organised crime.
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Review of NSW Police Force use of force reporting
Law Enforcement Conduct Commission, 21 February 2023
The NSW Police Force’s database does not accurately record the police’s use-of-force. The Commission’s review identified under-reporting of police using firearms, Tasers and capsicum spray in their record-keeping database.
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UN torture prevention body terminates visit to Australia
GENEVA, 20 February 2023
“Despite the good cooperation the Subcommittee has with the Australian Federal Authorities following our initial mission, there is no alternative but to terminate the visit as the issue of unrestricted access to all places of deprivation of liberty in two states has not yet been resolved,” said Suzanne Jabbour, the newly re-elected Chairperson of the SPT.
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RESEARCH REPORT: You can’t pour from an empty cup: Strengthening our service and systems responses for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people who experience domestic and family violence
Garth Morgan, ANROWS, 27 February 2023
First Nations children experience high rates of domestic and family violence and are overrepresented in child protection systems in Australia. The long history of violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people that commenced with colonisation, the effects of which are still being felt today, significantly contributes to these outcomes. Policies intended to respond to these harms, improve wellbeing, and enhance safety, instead continue to cause harm, rarely providing culturally safe, well-resourced and trauma informed solutions.
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Lidia Thorpe’s Mardi Gras disruption is the latest in an ongoing debate about acceptable forms of protest at Pride
Justin Ellis, The Conversation, 28 Feb 2023
Independent senator for Victoria Lidia Thorpe’s temporary blocking of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade on Saturday night has again brought to the surface discussion on the role of protest and police discretion.
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The Premier, a former judge, and an Indigenous legal service officer weigh in on Queensland youth crime
Rebecca Levingston, ABC, 27 Feb 2023
This month the Queensland government announced it would invest $332 million into a raft of initiatives and law reforms to tackle youth crime across the state. The funding will go towards boosting police resources, supporting community safety, and to address the cause of juvenile offending.
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Scott White pleads guilty to 1988 manslaughter of Scott Johnson
Jamie McKinnell, ABC, 23 Feb 2023
The man arrested over the 1988 death of American mathematician Scott Johnson in Sydney has pleaded guilty to manslaughter, after having a murder conviction quashed on appeal and previously maintaining his innocence.
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As the Pandemic Swept America, Deaths in Prisons Rose Nearly 50 Percent
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries and Allie Pitchon, New York Times, 19 Feb 2023
The first comprehensive data on prison fatalities in the Covid era sheds new light on where and why prisoners were especially vulnerable. The tremendous jump in deaths in 2020 was more than twice the increase in the United States overall, and even exceeded estimates of the percentage increase at nursing homes, among the hardest-hit sectors nationwide. In many states, the data showed, high rates continued in 2021.
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How can London's police force ever regain the trust of women?
Jacqueline Howard, ABC, 19 Feb 2023
The revelation that one of Britain's worst sex offenders in history was using his police badge to aid his crimes has shattered the trust that remained in London's crisis-riddled Metropolitan Police.
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Queensland Labor backflips to make breach of bail an offence for children
Ben Smee and Eden Gillespie, The Guardian, 20 Feb 2023
The Queensland government will begin charging children with criminal offences for breaching bail conditions – a move that advocates say will cause a human rights emergency in the state’s buckling youth detention system.
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Wayne was 13 when he was locked up in Queensland — he says it made him a better criminal
Alexandria Utting, ABC, 19 Feb 2023
Wayne Shaw was about eight when he broke into a stranger's home for the first time. He was on a trip to northern New South Wales with other kids who had been placed in the care of BoysTown — a residential school for disadvantaged boys.
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Folbigg inquiry head must decide on evidence now, “can’t wait for science to fully develop”
Matthew Agius, Cosmos, 17 February 2023
Professor Arlie Loughnan comments
The contrasts between the scientific and judicial processes have again been highlighted at the Folbigg inquiry, with its head, former NSW Chief Justice Tom Bathurst KC, saying it can’t wait for scientific certainty to emerge over years to make a decision.
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Daniel Andrews threatens to go it alone to raise the age of criminal responsibility in Victoria
Benita Kolovos and Nino Bucci, The Guardian, 16 Feb 2023
Daniel Andrews has made his strongest indication yet that Victoria will abandon a national process to raise the age of criminal responsibility and go it alone.
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Publications
All open access unless indicated.
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The Emerald International Handbook of Activist Criminology
Victoria Canning, Greg Martin, Steve Tombs (eds), Emerald Publishing Limited
Abstract: Although intervention and campaigning have long been integral to
critical criminology, in recent years, criminal justice activism has taken
new directions and gathered momentum, especially with the advent of
digital technologies and social media. These have made it easier than
ever for ordinary citizens and professional journalists alike to comment
on perceived injustices and potentially intervene in formal criminal
justice processes.
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Intergenerational incarceration in New South Wales: Characteristics of people in prison experiencing parental imprisonment
Marc Rémond, et al, Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice no. 663, Australian Institute of Criminology.
Abstract: This study uses data from two state-wide surveys conducted in NSW prisons and youth justice centres in 2015 to examine the epidemiology of intergenerational incarceration. One in six (16.9%) adults in prison and over half (52.6%) of young people in youth justice centres reported that a parent had been imprisoned. For Aboriginal participants, 32.0 percent of adults and 66.4 percent of young people reported a previously incarcerated parent. Women were more than twice as likely as men to report that their mother had been in prison. Younger participants, those who had completed fewer years of schooling, and those previously in out-of-home care were more likely to report that a parent had been incarcerated. The high prevalence of intergenerational incarceration in NSW correctional settings, particularly among young people in youth justice centres and Aboriginal peoples in custody, highlights the need for interventions to support parents in prison and at-risk children whose parents are incarcerated.
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First Nations Peoples in the forensic mental health system in New South Wales: Characteristics and rates of criminal charges post-release
Kimberlie Dean et al, Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
Abstract: It is well established that First Nations Peoples in Australia are overrepresented within the criminal justice system. However, First Nations Peoples appear to be comparatively underrepresented in the forensic mental health system, and little is known about their outcomes once released from secure care. The findings of this study confirm that First Nations forensic patients have distinct and complex needs that are apparent at entry to the forensic mental health system and that their poorer criminal justice contact rates following release from secure care indicate that these needs are not being adequately met either during treatment or once in the community. Responses to these study findings must consider the complex and continuing impact of colonisation on First Nations Peoples, as well as the need for solutions to be culturally safe.
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Australia's Divergent Legal Responses to Women Who Kill Their Abusive Partners
Caitlin Nash and Rachel Dioso-Villa, Violence Against Women
Abstract: Concerns over the legal treatment of women who kill in response to domestic abuse have driven several jurisdictions to reform their homicide laws in recent years. This article examines how abused women are currently treated within the Australian legal system by analyzing homicide cases involving women prosecuted for killing an abusive partner in Australia from 2010 to 2020. The findings reveal the limitations of legal reforms to improve access to justice for abused women. Instead, there needs to be an increased focus toward pre-trial stages of criminal proceedings and to address persistent misconceptions and stereotypes associated with domestic abuse.
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“Help Me Realize What I’m Becoming”: Men’s Views on Digital Interventions as a Way to Promote Early Help-Seeking for Use of Violence in Relationships
Laura Tarzia, et al, Journal of Interpersonal Violence
Abstract: Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a major global issue with huge impacts on individuals, families, and communities. It is also a gendered problem, with the vast majority of IPV perpetrated by men. To date, interventions have primarily focused on victim/survivors; however, it is increasingly recognized that men’s use of violence must also be addressed. Despite this, there remain limited options for doing this in practice. In most high-income countries, men’s behavior change programs (MBCPs) or their equivalent are the typical referral pathway, with men often mandated to attend by the criminal justice system. Yet, these programs have limited evidence for their effectiveness and recidivism and dropouts are major challenges. Moreover, an entire subset of men—those uninvolved with criminal justice settings—remain under-serviced. It is clear that a critical gap remains around early engagement with men using violence in relationships. This study explores the potential for digital interventions (websites or apps) to fill this gap through qualitative analysis of data from focus groups with 21 men attending MBCPs in Victoria, Australia. Overall, we interpreted men’s perceptions of digital interventions as being able to facilitate connection with the “better man inside,” with four sub-themes: (a) Don’t jump down my throat straight away; (b) Help me realize what I’m becoming; (c) Seeing a change in my future; and (d) Make it simple and accessible. The findings of this study suggest that there is strong potential for digital interventions to engage early with men using IPV, but also some key challenges. Websites or apps can provide a safe, private space for men to reflect on their behavior and its consequences; however, the lack of interpersonal interaction can make it challenging to balance non-judgmental engagement with accountability. These issues should be considered when designing digital interventions for men using violence in relationships.
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Gone fishing: The operation of police vehicle stops in England and Wales
Geoff Pearson and Mike Rowe, Criminology & Criminal Justice
Abstract: This article analyses the operation of police vehicle stop checks in England and Wales. In contrast to other common police powers, vehicle checks are remarkably under-regulated and have received little academic attention, but they are regularly used coercive powers supported by criminal sanction. Based upon a 6-year ethnographic study, including observations of 205 vehicle stops, this article sets out how stop checks are used as part of routine policing. We consider their effectiveness in reducing crime and assess their link to stop and search. Our data cast doubt on the effectiveness of self-generated vehicle stop checks for identifying crime and indicate that they may play a role in driving racial disproportionality in stop and search. We conclude that stop checks should be recorded by officers, which will improve the accountability of the power and could provide important data for uncovering the reasons for racial disproportionality in the use of stop and search.
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Sexual offences committed by members of the armed forces: Is the service justice system fit for purpose?
Charlotte Herriott, et al, Criminology & Criminal Justice
Abstract: Recent policy reviews, academic research and high-profile media critiques have repeatedly emphasised the UK military as a hypermasculine culture, seemingly permissive of sexual violence, marked by high prevalence of sexual offences and an inadequate justice response. The service justice system has been characterised by low conviction rates and poor treatment of victim-survivors of sexual offences, prompting recommendation that rape should be tried in the civilian criminal justice system rather than the service justice system. Despite notable debate on this matter, the Ministry of Defence (MOD) ultimately rejected this recommendation in December 2021 and instead committed to implementing clear and meaningful change within the service justice system response to sexual offences. In light of this decision, this article interrogates available data about the current service justice system response to sexual offending, and lessons that may be learnt from the civilian criminal justice system, to highlight current obstacles to justice and outline areas in which further research and scrutiny is necessary.
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Revisiting the economic theory of crime A state-level analysis in India
Pranav Raj & Md Mizanur Rahman, Cogent Social Sciences
Abstract: The economic theory of crime tends to suggest that deterrence variables have a significant impact on crime rates in a society. From an economic perspective, criminals are rational economic agents who weigh the likelihood of being arrested and apprehended before committing a crime. An increase in the likelihood of arrest and apprehension should deter criminals as it increases the expected costs of committing crimes. This paper revisits the behavioral links between deterrence variables and crime rates in the Indian context. Empirically, we draw on state level data for India in 2001–2014 and employ the system GMM estimator technique to support our claims. The study reports that deterrence factors (probability of arrest and apprehension) have a perverse impact on India’s crime rates. The paper reveals that an increase in the probability of deterrence variables does not lead to a reduction in crime rates, indicating a fundamental flaw in India’s corrective mechanisms. The research recommends penal system reform in order to accurately reconfigure the behavioral links between deterrence variables and crime rates.
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Theorising and illustrating plural policing models in countering armed banditry as hybrid terrorism in northwest Nigeria
Oluwole Ojewale, Cogent Social Sciences
Abstract: Banditry constitutes about 40% of national insecurity in Nigeria. It is a composite crime manifesting in wanton killing, cattle rustling, kidnapping for ransom, levying of illegal tax on farming communities, sexual violence and trafficking of arms and drugs. Through qualitative and quantitative research methodology, this article attempts to theorise and illustrate policing models aimed at countering armed banditry in northwest Nigeria. Coordinates of attacks by bandits are georeferenced to show their spatial distribution and pattern. As Nigeria continues to experience the shocks of banditry, the national and subnational governments are providing counter measures to lessen the striking capability of the bandits through four distinct but complementary models of policing. The article offers direction on the policing imperatives for combatting armed banditry in Nigeria. It proposes a multilevel policing framework which encompasses the mainstream policing, hybrid policing and the joint task force models with the state police as the new layer on the existing security architecture. This is well suited to respond to the conceptual, practical and strategic dimensions of policing in Nigeria to combat armed banditry and other criminalities that envelop the country.
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Chasing Wrongs and Rights: Elaine Pearson in conversation The Australian Human Rights Institute at UNSW Sydney
Date: 2 March 2023
Time: 1 pm-2 pm (AEDT)
Location: Law Theatre G02, UNSW Law and Justice, Law Building (F8), University Mall, UNSW Sydney, Kensington NSW
Elaine has worked for Human Rights Watch since 2007 in New York and Sydney and conducted human rights investigations around the globe. She was Human Rights Watch’s inaugural Australia Director from 2013–2022. Prior to Human Rights Watch, Elaine worked for the United Nations and non-governmental organisations in Bangkok, Hong Kong, Kathmandu and London. She is an adjunct lecturer in law at UNSW, was on the Advisory Committee of UNSW’s Australian Human Rights Institute 2019-2022 and on the board of the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women.
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Pride Address and Breakfast,Law Society of NSW
Date: Friday 3 March 2023
Time: 7.30am - 9.30am
Venue: Law Society of New South Wales
The Law Society's Diversity and Inclusion Committee invites you to hear from one of the global legal profession's most passionate advocates for the rights of LGBTQIA+ people. South Africa's former justice Edwin Cameron served as a Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and is renowned for his HIV/AIDS and gay-rights activism, with Nelson Mandela declaring him "one of South Africa's new heroes".
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Student Criminology Forum 2023Australian Institute of Criminology
Date: 21 March 2023
Time: 10 am - 4 pm
Register by 14 March 2023
Registration is open to students with a current Australian university email address and an interest in crime and criminal justice. Register using your current university email address by Tuesday 14 March 2023. Positions are limited.
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Wrongful Conviction & the Structural Analysis of Innocence Cases
Date: 27 March 2023
Time: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm AEDT
Venue: University of Newcastle, Ground Floor, Room X-G18, NU Space
This seminar will provide a comparative analysis of wrongful convictions and the structural analysis of innocence cases, providing Japanese case examples. The seminar would be of interest to law, criminology and psychology students, legal practitioners, and anyone interested in criminal procedures. The seminar will run for approximately 40 minutes. There will be an opportunity for a Q&A at the end of the session.
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7th Annual Future Justice and Corrections Summit
7th Annual Future Justice and Corrections Summit will bring together key stakeholders across government departments, private and public operators, architects and health practitioners to come together and discuss the future of Corrections in Australia and NZ.
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Applied Research in Crime and Justice Conference
Date: 14-15 August 2023
Venue: International Convention Centre, Sydney
The conference aims to showcase practical, policy-relevant research with a direct bearing on effective criminal justice administration and reducing crime. The two-day event will feature presentations and panel discussions with distinguished academics and speakers from across the world including keynote addresses by Professor Aaron Chaflin, University of Pennsylvania, and Professor Jason Payne, University of Wollongong.
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Call for Submissions: Current and proposed sexual consent laws in Australia
Parliament of Australia
Deadline for submissions: 2 March 2023
On 29 November 2022, the Senate referred an inquiry into current and proposed sexual consent laws in Australia to the Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee for inquiry and report by 30 June 2023.
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Call for Preliminary Submissions: Firearms, knives and other weapons
NSW Sentencing Council
Submissions close: 3 March 2023
The Attorney General has asked the NSW Sentencing Council to review the sentencing of firearms, knives and other weapons offences in NSW.
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Policy Officer - NSW Law Reform Commission and Sentencing Council Secretariat
NSW Government
Closing Date: 5 March 2023
Are you passionate about improving the law? Do you enjoy taking a deep dive into complex legal and policy issues? Do you have exceptional skills in research, writing and project management? Can you think critically and creatively to solve legal and policy problems? If so, this role could be for you.
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Project Officer - Terrorism
NSW Government: Communities and Justice
Closing Date: 6 March 2023
The Department of Communities and Justice delivers legal, court and supervision services to the people of NSW by managing courts and justice services, implementing programs to reduce crime and re offending, managing custodial and community-based correctional services, protecting rights and community standards, and advising on law reform and legal matters.
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Tribunal Officer
Administrative Appeals Tribunal Sydney, New South Wales
Applications close: 9 March 2023
The AAT is part of the justice sector and provides administrative justice for individuals and organisations by reviewing government and other decisions and, more broadly, contributes to improving the quality of government decision-making.
Details: Administration/Support Service, Customer Service/Call Centre
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Assistant Professor A or B - Criminology and Criminal Justice
Bond University
Applications close: 15 March 2023
The Bond University Criminology and Criminal Justice program within the Faculty of Society and Design has established itself as a leader in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and research. We offer a number of undergraduate and postgraduate study options, as well as higher degree research in the relevant discipline.
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Call for submissions on the strategic vision for the fulfilment of the mandate of Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance
UNCHR
Submissions close: 17 March 2023
The Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, will report to the Human Rights Council for the first time at its 53rd session, in June 2023, pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 43/36. Her first thematic report will outline the strategic vision for the fulfillment of her mandate.
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Apply to become a witness intermediary
NSW Government
Applications Close: 19 March 2023
Victims Services is accepting applications to join the panel of witness intermediaries to assist child victims and witnesses of sexual offences through the Child Sexual Offence Evidence Program.
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Forensic Behavioural Science
Swinburne University of Technology
Applications Close: 21 March 2023
Swinburne University of Technology’s Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science (CFBS) department is looking for a postdoctoral research fellow to join their team to work with Distinguished Professor James Ogloff AM. The CFBS is Australasia’s leading centre for excellence in the areas of forensic mental health and forensic behavioural science research, teaching and practice development.
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Research Fellow, Grade 1
Griffith University
Applications Close: 29 March 2023
We are looking for a motivated and highly skilled Research Fellow to work with a team of scholars interested in “Understanding the emerging threat of conspiracy-fuelled extremism in Australia”. The successful applicant will work closely with the project team to investigate the drivers of conspiracy-fuelled extremist beliefs and behaviours. Centrally, we seek to understand conspiracy-fuelled extremism through a theoretical framework that considers “injustice grievances” brought on by the COVID pandemic, alongside the “de-legitimisation” of governments, authorities and policies that occurred during the pandemic.
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Call for input on The use of technology in facilitating and preventing contemporary forms of slavery
UNCHR
Submissions close: 14 April 2023
The Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences, wishes to focus his next thematic report to the General Assembly on “the use of technology in facilitating and preventing contemporary forms of slavery”. For the purpose of the report, he aims to also assess the experiences of survivors/victims who have been recruited and exploited in conducts within his mandate, particularly forced labour, the worst form of child labour, and forced and early marriage, with the use of modern technology in addition to analysing information from multiple other stakeholders and sources.
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BLOGS, INTERVIEWS & PODCASTS
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The Prison Letters Project: Considering Past Trauma
New York Times Magazine
John J. Lennon, 21 Feb 2023
I’m John J. Lennon, a prison journalist serving a 28-years-to-life aggregate sentence for selling drugs and murder. Today I’m a contributing editor at Esquire, I write frequently for The Times and I’m working with Emily Bazelon, a staff writer at the magazine, on the Prison Letters Project. This is the second installment of the project’s newsletters for the magazine.
Bazelon started the Prison Letters Project to answer correspondence she receives from incarcerated people — and amplify the voices of the writers. In 2021, The New York Times Magazine published her cover story about the exoneration of Yutico Briley, who had written to her from prison in Louisiana.
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Why we need to rethink our approach to hate
Transforming Society
John Clayton, Catherine Donovan and Edward Hall, 16 February 2023
The latest hate crime statistics are a sharp reminder of the enduring and worsening discrimination and violence experienced by many people from minority communities. Current policies to tackle hate are not working. A new approach is urgently needed.
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"Everyone knows that children do their best when they are supported, nurtured and loved. But right now across Australia, children as young as 10 can be arrested by police, charged with an offence, hauled before a court and locked away in a prison.
We know these laws are harming children at a critical time in their lives. When children are forced through a criminal legal process, at such a formative time in their development, they can suffer lifelong harm to their health, wellbeing and future"
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