CrimNet

29 April 2024

Drug Law Reform - shifting to a public health lens; NSW Council for Civil Liberties

May 02, 2024 at 6:00pm - 9pm

Beacham Hotel, 267 Oxford St, Darlinghurst, NSW

Please join the NSW Council for Civil Liberties for an important conversation about the current state-of-play with Drug Law Reform in NSW. This event brings together experts in this field including Dr Marianne Jauncey, Will Tregoning, Georgina Bell, Shane Prince SC and Institute member, Dr Ben Mostyn for a discussion with Institute member, Nicholas Cowdery AO KC about moving towards harm reduction drug laws for NSW. The evidence overwhelmingly supports a health-based approach to drug use and more countries around the world are going down this path. It is time for our political leaders to set aside their ideology, listen to the evidence, and modernise our laws.

This is a free event however, registration is required.

For more information, see here. 

Professor Simon Bronitt is the Head of School and Dean of Sydney Law School commencing July 2019. In 2021, he was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law. Drawing on comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives, Professor Bronitt has published widely on criminal justice topics ranging across terrorism law and human rights, comparative criminal law, covert policing, family violence, and mental health policing.

Recent publications include Federal Proceeds of Crime Law (Thomson Reuters, 2023), Law in Context (5th ed, The Federation Press, 2023), Rape Law in Context (The Federation Press, 2018), and Principles of Criminal Law (4th ed, Thomson Reuters, 2017).

Professor Simon Bronitt co-authored a book titled, 'Federal Proceeds of Crime Law'. The book (co-authored with Jordan English and Sam Hickey) was conceived in 2017/8 when Professor Simon Bronitt was in Queensland serving as the Deputy Dean Research at UQ Law School. 

Reflecting on the 7 year project, he observed “Federal Proceeds of Crime in Australia is an understudied area of law, spanning criminal law, procedure, policing powers and complex private law concepts. 

His team brought their academic and practical expertise across these domains to produce this long-anticipated first edition, which is hoped to assist scholars, students and criminal justice professionals interested in criminal confiscation”.

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.

Special Issue Open Call for Papers: Current Issues in Criminal Justice (CICJ)

Title: Reforming anti-money laundering regulation in Australia

Guest editors and contact details:
Prof. Colin King (Sydney): colin.king1@sydney.edu.au
Dr Anton Moiseienko (ANU): Anton.Moiseienko@anu.edu.au

Scope
Notwithstanding various reviews (e.g. Attorney General’s Department 2016), parliamentary committees (e.g Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Reference Committee 2022), and consultations (e.g. Attorney General’s Department, 2023), there is still limited knowledge on anti-money laundering (AML) policymaking in Australia and on implementation of AML obligations in different sectors.

In April 2023, the Attorney General’s Department commenced a public consultation on reform, in particular concerning tranche 2 entities. The next stage of that consultation is expected to be launched in April 2024, thus this special issue would be particularly timely.

We encourage submissions on a range of topics related to the above, whether it is the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) review process; AML implementation in different sectors; impact of AML regulation; experiences from other jurisdictions; or otherwise.
We are keen to ensure a diverse range of views, including PhD students, academics, and practitioners.

Timeline
• Abstracts (up to 400 words) should be submitted to the special issue editors by May 4th
• The decision on accepted abstracts will be made by May 13th
• Full papers are to be submitted for peer review by August 1st
• Publication is expected in early 2025 (vol.37(1)).

Instructions for authors
CICJ publishes 1. full-length articles (8,000 words limit, including references), 2.
contemporary comments (shorter articles on ‘cutting issues’, approx..4,000-5,000 words including references), and 3. book reviews.

For information on style, journal aims & scope, see here.

Nominations for the 2024 Australian Crime and Violence Prevention Awards (ACVPA) have now extended to 3 May 2024

Australian Institute of Criminology

The annual Australian Crime and Violence Prevention Awards (ACVPA) recognise and reward programs that reduce crime and violence in Australia. The awards encourage public initiatives, and assist governments in identifying and developing practical projects which will reduce violence and other types of crime in the community.

Any government agency, not-for-profit organisation or individual person making a significant contribution to a project in Australia can be nominated for an award. Projects may address specific groups such as rural and remote communities, women, children, youth, family, migrant, ethnic or Indigenous communities, or specific problems such as alcohol-related violence.

For more information,see here.

Conference: Applied Research in Crime and Justice; Griffith Criminology Institute 

Conference Date: 1-2 July 2024

Venue: Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre

Griffith Criminology Institute, in partnership with the New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR), is pleased to invite you to the Applied Research in Crime and Justice Conference. The conference will be held on 1 – 2 July 2024 at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre.

The conference showcases practical, policy-relevant research with a direct bearing on effective criminal justice administration and crime prevention. The event serves as a platform for bringing together policymakers, academics and influential stakeholders from public, private, and university sectors.

For more information, see here. 

HDR Scholarship - Network science and covert threats

Deakin University

Applications close: 5 pm, 30 April 2024 

Network science offers unique concepts, theories, and methods to analyse and understand relationships between a given set of social entitles (individuals, groups, etc.) in ways that directly inform the identification, anticipation, and disruption of covert threats. This project aims to leverage the untapped potential of network science for analysing and disrupting crime and security risks. 

Developing novel simulation methodologies to systematically analyse the characteristics of cybercrime, organised crime, and extremist networks, the project will use advances in analytics and machine learning to model and reveal effective intelligence targeting and disruption strategies. The project will therefore extend existing research on cover networks in significant ways.

For more information, see here. 

Senior Lecturer, Forensic Science, School of Science; Western Sydney University 

Application deadline: 23 May 2024 

Western Sydney University are seeking a forward thinking, contemporary, and innovative scholar to take on the role of Lecturer (Level B) or Senior Lecturer (Level C) in forensic science. The successful applicant will be expected to contribute to teaching within the School of Science in forensic science and related areas, and may have opportunities for relevant leadership roles in this area. 

The successful applicant will be involved in a range of academic activities, including the coordination and teaching of units in forensic science and related areas within programs across the School. The appointee will be expected to conduct research and supervise undergraduate and postgraduate (Masters and PhD) research students in their area of expertise. The appointee will also be expected to be knowledgeable in contemporary methods of teaching forensic science including e-Learning approaches. 

For more information, see here. 

Justice Fellowships 

Law and Justice Foundation of NSW 

Application deadline: 10 am, 1 May 2024

The Law and Justice Foundation of NSW (‘the Foundation’) is launching the inaugural Justice Fellowships program, offering a platform for in-depth exploration of legal and access to justice issues. The program seeks to cultivate and share innovative ideas in support of promoting access to justice, with each awarded Justice Fellow pursuing their identified topic of interest.

Up to four Justice Fellowships will be awarded annually. Each Justice Fellow will receive $10,000 (pre-tax) to cover their expenses, as well as support and guidance from the Foundation in exploring their chosen topic. Justice Fellows will be invited to present their findings and ideas at a sector forum hosted by the Foundation.

For more information, see here. 

Call for papers: Exploring Intersections of Media, Law, Communication and Crime ; An Interdisciplinary Symposium organised by the School of Media and Communication and School of Law and Criminology, Murdoch University

Abstract deadline: 21 June 2024 

Murdoch University invites abstracts for 15-20 minute presentations (plus 5-10 minutes Q&A) that engage with:

- media and/or communications approaches to the law and/or crime or,

- legal and/or criminological approaches to the media and/or communications.

This interdisciplinary one-day symposium aims to bring scholars, practitioners, industry experts, and policy makers together to share their latest ideas and research.

Paper proposals are invited on any of the following topics, though this list is not exhaustive:

- Criminological approaches to any aspect of media and/or communication

- Legal approaches to any aspect of media and/or communication

- Media and/or communication approaches to any aspect of crime, criminality and/or criminology

- Media and/or communication approaches to any aspect of the law, lawyers, legal frameworks

- What law or criminology can bring to or offer to one or more aspects of media and/or communication and vice versa

- Connections/disconnections, gaps, points of continuity/discontinuity, junctures/disjunctures, agreement/disagreement, flows and blocks, tactics of resolution in the relationship between these disciplines and the practical work they undertake

Presentations may focus on one or more of the following:

- Theory/theoretical approaches

- Methods, methodologies

- Past, present or future issues, cases or examples

- Representations, cases, texts, frameworks, codes, practices, ethics

- Local, national, international, transnational, global issues or examples

- Pedagogical, practitioner or industry perspectives

Presentations that align with one or more of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are particularly encouraged.

We welcome proposals from postgraduate/honours students and early career researchers as well as industry representatives and practitioners in addition to institutionally-affiliated academics. Multi-authored papers are welcome.

After the symposium, presenters will have the opportunity to submit a written version of their paper for consideration for inclusion in a special issue of one or more high quality journals and/or an edited collection of essays.

Please submit your paper title with a 150-word abstract along with a 50-100 word biography for each author by June 21st, 2024 to: Greg Martin 

For enquiries, contact: Greg Martin or Lauren O'Mahony. 

Call for Abstracts: “Information Pollution, Crimes, Harms, and Criminal Justice: Untangling the Nexus” ; Eurepean Journal on Criminal Policy and Research 

Abstract deadline: 12 July 2024

The European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research (EJCPR) welcomes submissions to a new special issue on "Information pollution, Crimes, Harms, and Criminal Justice: Untangling the Nexus”, which will be Guest-Edited by Fernando Miró Llinares (Miguel Hernández University of Elche, Spain) and Anita Lavorgna (University of Bologna, Italy).

Important Dates
The Guest Editors encourage prospective authors to submit extended abstracts for consideration by July 12th, 2024. They may be sent to either anita.lavorgna@unibo.it or f.miro@crimina.es.

Manuscript submission deadline: November 29th, 2024.

For more information, see here.

Call for Chapter Abstracts

(Provisional) Book title: Zemiology Beyond The Critique of Capitalism: Harm, Colonialism and Decolonization

Editors:
Dr Edward J Wright, University of Nottingham, UK
Dr George (Kev) Dertadian, University of New South Wales, Australia
Dr Avi Boukli, University of Southampton, UK
Dr James Heydon, University of Nottingham, UK

Follow recent calls to decolonise zemiology (the study of social harm) we are sending out this call for chapters to be part of a Routledge collection on the topic. This follows excellent recent entries like Routledge International Handbook on Decolonizing Justice. A brief initial description of the book is provided below:

This edited collection seeks to forge relationships between zemiology – the study of social harm, which has in the last three decades presented a challenge to criminological thinking – and decolonization. Colonialism was and is in various ways harmful, and yet the area of study that is principally concerned with social harm very rarely considers this. This text is a response to this situation. It seeks to contribute to the reconstruction of zemiology through rethinking the causes of contemporary social harms by engaging in post- and decolonial thought, and other similar bodies of knowledge.

At a time when we are seeing an escalation of colonial violence towards the people of Palestine, Artsakh and the Congo, among others, alongside a deepening crisis around seeing this violence for what it is, we see this as a timely occasion to make colonial systems of power visible in a disciplinary area dedicated to the study of harm outside the concept of crime.

Further to the details in the attached call for chapters we would love to see chapters that focus on topics such as:

· Sovereignty, self-determination and zemiology

· Colonial violence and social harm

· History, coloniality and social harm

· Abolition, decolonisation and social harm

· Colonisation, gendered violence and social harm

· Disability/mental health and zemiology

· Zemiology, colonisation and technology

· Climate crisis, colonialism and social harm

·  Zemiology, decolonisation and pedagogy

The editors would be keen to discuss any chapter ideas with anyone who is interested. ‌Looking forward to hearing from those who might be interested.

For more information, see here. 

'None of them asked for this': keeping kids out of jail

Institute member, Associate Professor Garner Clancey shared his insights about the concerning spike in youth offending. 

Read here. 

Australian Institute of Criminology

The Australian Institute of Criminology has released a new report reviewing published Australian and international research on police training in responding to family, domestic and sexual violence.

The report notes that family, domestic and sexual violence has come to figure more prominently in police training over the last few decades.

Training has expanded to address more advanced topics including recognising and investigating coercive control, and identifying primary aggressors.

Evidence suggests that police are generally receptive and responsive to training, although certain types of training, particularly those with strong practical and problem-solving components, hold more promise.

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