CrimNet

21 May 2024

A whole-of-university response to youth justice: Reflections on a university–youth justice partnership

Authors:

Garner Clancey, Cecilia Drumore, Laura Metcalfe

May 09, 2024

Australian Institute of Criminology

Sydney Institute of Criminology member, Associate Professor Garner Clancey, has co-authored a paper for the Australian Institute of Criminology.The University of Sydney and Youth Justice New South Wales signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in July 2021. This MoU builds on various prior collaborative activities between the two organisations and related work in other jurisdictions. This paper reflects on the progress and challenges of collaboration of this kind. Specifically, there has been tentative progress in engaging non-traditional parts of the university in youth justice projects.

The initial stage of the collaboration highlighted challenges, including structures within the university which can frustrate interdisciplinary work. Time lines, staff turnover and resources also impacted this collaboration. The authors of this paper conclude with an outline of what might be achieved through ongoing collaboration and signal the importance of ongoing research to capture data and insights regarding the nature of this relationship as it develops.

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 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.

Ethics symposium and participatory design workshop:  Community safety, policing, and AI : putting ethical principles into practice'.

Date: 23 -24 MAY 2024 (AEST)

Monash University (Monash College), Docklands, Melbourne

The AI for Law Enforcement and Community Safety lab (AiLECS) is excited to present to you, as part of our Setting the Agenda Series, an ethics symposium and participatory design workshop: Community safety, policing, and AI : putting ethical principles into practice.

This free, in-person event runs over one and a half days in the Melbourne CBD. 

For more information,see here.

Out-of-Home Care Student Attendance

University of Tasmania

Applications close: 1 June 2024 

Out-of-Home Care Student Attendance

Do you want to improve education outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students who are in out-of-home-care? Then please contact us about our research project to support school attendance for students in care. Applications to join us as a PhD (3 years) or Master by Research (2 years) colleague are open until 1 June 2024.

The position comes with a total package of up to $54,000 p/y, including the University of Tasmania stipend ($32,192) and top up scholarship from Life Without Barriers ($12,000), plus funding to assist with research costs and with maintaining community and cultural connections.

Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander applicants are strongly encouraged to apply for this full time HDR project.

You can be based in Tasmania (relocation support available) or interstate. Your PhD will be part of a larger project funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC).

You will work with Dr Michael Guerzoni (researcher in Social Sciences and descendent of the Truwulway people in Tasmania) as your primary supervisor, and Professor Kitty te Riele (lead researcher for the ARC project) as your co-supervisor.

For more information, visit: Out-of-Home Care Student Attendance | University of Tasmania (utas.edu.au)

Call for Papers: Special Issue on Criminology in Post-Violence Transitions: Exploring the Intersections between Human Rights, Grassroots Activism, Transitional Justice, Memory, and Criminology

Abstract deadline: 1 April 2024 

Event details: the one-day event will be held in person at Murdoch University on 25 September 2024, with remote access available for presenters unable to attend in person.

Guest Editors Camilo Tamayo Gomez (University of Huddersfield), Natalia Maystorovich Chulio (University of Sydney) and Ailsa Peate (University of Westminster) aim to curate a unique and multidisciplinary examination of the complex interactions between the academic field of criminology and other key epistemologies in the context of post-violence transitions. More specifically, this special issue will present new frontiers of knowledge, activist practice, and human rights reflection regarding emerging topics within the realm of criminology and post-conflict transitions.

Abstracts for consideration are due April 1, full papers August 1

All details here.

Call for Chapter Abstracts

2nd Edition Palgrave Handbook of Criminology and the Global South

Editors:
Kerry Carrington, Roxana Cavalcanti, David Fonseca, Russell Hogg, John Scott & Valeria Vegh Weis 

Criminology – as a theoretical and empirical project – has historically overlooked the distinctive contributions from and about the global South. This second edition of the Palgrave Handbook of Criminology and the Global South will be the first major reference work (100 chapters – 750,000 words) to draw together the rapidly growing research and theory about crime, punishment, security, prisons, policing, gender violence, environmental justice, island justice and justice innovations from, of and about the Global South.

Our main purpose in assembling this second edition of the Handbook is to promote the global South as both a space to produce knowledge and as a source of innovative research and theory on crime and justice. It is hoped that it will contribute to the bridging of global divides, and reducing inequities that exist as much in the realms of knowledge as in those of economic and geo-political relations. The southernizing project is a genuinely open and pluralistic one that encourages new and emerging scholars to publish their work alongside existing pivotal works in the field. Hence the importance of this open call for abstracts.

Abstracts of 350-500 words should address one of the following themes:

The second edition contains 10 Themes. Themes number 6-10 are new.

Theoretical debates and key concepts in southernizing/democratising criminology

Crime and Criminalisation in the Global Peripheries

Southern Penalities & Punishment in the Global South

Gender, culture and crime on the global periphery

Alternative Justice & Justice Innovations from the global South

Colonial Legacies, Histories of Crime and Social Control 

Southern Perspectives on Border Control and Crimmigration

Pacifica and Island Justice

Environmental Justice & the Global South

 Policing and security in the global peripheries

Particularly welcomed are chapters by:

 – Scholars from a diversity of struggles including feminist, First Nations, LGBTQ, labour, migrant, prisoners and environmental movements;

– Collaborations between authors from the global South, and collaborations between authors from the global North and the global South, and

 -Chapters co-authored by established scholars, early-career researchers and activists together.

Include your name, institution, and contact email with your abstract to kcarrington@usc.edu.au

Time-line Abstract Submission 24 May 2024; First Draft Chapter Submission between 19 September 2024 and 31 March 2025.

Special Issue on Unraveling Violence, Gendered Extremism: Interdisciplinary and Global Perspectives and Challenges 

Papers are invited for a special issue of the international journal Crime, Media, Culture

The special issue aims to explore the ways in which gender is used to explain and narrate extremist violence such as terrorism and mass violence events like rampage killings. The issue will collect interdisciplinary perspectives on the intersections of violent extremism, cultural dynamics of history, space and politics, and power and legitimacy.

Guest editors are Dr Sara Salman (Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington) and Dr Veronika Nagy (Utrecht University, The Netherlands). Funding support to coordinate the issue is provided by He Whenua Taurikura.

Note: if you would like to make a submission but are unable to meet the deadline of 30 May, please contact Dr Salman as an extension may be possible.

Submission timeline:
• 30 May 2024: Abstract submissions
• 15 June: Abstracts accepted, and authors notified
• 25 August: Full articles submitted for peer review
• September 2024: Authors notified of review outcome
• November 2024: Final article submission – for proofs

For more information, see here.

Brain technology: A step forward, or a dystopian nightmare?

 Dr Allan McCay Institute Deputy Director, Academic Fellow, Sydney Law School.

Listen here. 

Australian Institute of Criminology

The National Homicide Monitoring Program is Australia’s only national data collection on homicide incidents, victims and offenders. This report describes the 218 homicide incidents recorded by Australian state and territory police between 1 July 2021 and 30 June 2022. During this 12-month period there were 234 victims of homicide and 279 identified offenders.

Please read here.

NSW Custody Statistics: Quarterly update March 2024

NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research

The Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research has today released adult and youth custody statistics up to March 2024.

Please read here.

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