CrimNet

19 February 2024

2024 Paul Byrne SC Memorial Lecture: The Rule of Law in Modern Australia Delivered by The Honourable Chief Justice Lucy McCallum

Date: 28 February 2024

Time: 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM 

Venue: Level 2, Law Foyer, New Law Building 

The 2024 Paul Byrne SC Memorial Lecture, hosted by the Sydney Institute of Criminology, will be presented by Chief Justice Lucy McCallum, on the topic ‘The Rule of Law in Modern Australia’.

About the speaker

Chief Justice Lucy McCallum  graduated with a BA/LLB from the University of New South Wales in 1986, majoring in philosophy. She commenced her legal career as a commercial litigation solicitor at Mallesons Stephen Jaques in Sydney before moving to Canberra to take up a position as a prosecutor in 1988. In 1990, her Honour joined the Queensland DPP as a trial advocate. She returned to Sydney in 1991 to become a barrister, taking silk in 2005. In 2008, her Honour was appointed as a judge of the  Supreme Court of New South Wales in the Common Law Division. In 2016, Chief Justice McCallum was appointed Chair of the NSW Judicial Commission Ngara Yura Committee, which works to educate judicial officers on matters relating to contemporary socio-cultural issues that have an impact on Aboriginal people in the justice system. In February 2019, she was elevated to the New South Wales Court of Appeal . Her Honour was sworn in as Chief Justice of the Australian Capital Territory on 8 March 2022. Her personal interests include a range of outdoor adventure sports as well as cooking, music and reading.

Corruption, Criminal Law, and China: Offering and Accepting Bribes

Date & Time: 20 February 2024; 5:00 PM-6:00 PM

Venue: Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School

CPD Points: 1

The XII Amendment to Criminal Law of P.R.C adopted by the Standing Committee of People’s Congress on 29 December 2023 is guided by two principles. One is to enhance protection for private enterprises and the other is to punish offering bribes and accepting bribes equally. The reason that accepting bribes, which has been punished ever since the foundation of P.R.C, is stressed now is of course the serious situation of bribery. Meanwhile, although the logic behind this is acceptable, whether legislative purpose can be realized to a high degree depends on judicial efforts.

Judging from typical cases and relative statistics, I believe four principles should be observed in terms of criminal law. In the first place, different approaches should be taken to deal with offering bribes committed by organizations and individuals. Compliance model might be a choice. Secondly, crime and civil or administrative violation should be carefully differentiated to prevent criminal punishments from leading to undue harms. Thirdly, the question whether public authorities can be charged with offering or accepting bribes should be answered in specific context. Finally, more flexible systems, such as disqualification and corporate probation, should be considered.

Speaker: Professor Zhenjie Zhou, Vice Dean, Beijing Normal University School of Law, China

Commentator: Judy Zhou, Consulting Solicitor of Taylor Rose Australia. 

Chair: Associate Professor Jie (Jeanne) Huang, Sydney Law School.

This event is proudly co-presented by the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law and the Sydney Institute of Criminology  at the University of Sydney Law School.

Business Compliance in International Commercial Transactions across Asia Pacific

Date & Time: 21 February 2024, All Day 

Venue: F10 New Law Building, Sydney Law School

The year 2024 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the  Shanghai Winter School program, offered by the University of Sydney Law School in collaboration with the East China University of Political Science and Law. To celebrate this milestone, the Sydney Law School will proudly host an academic conference titled ‘Business Compliance in International Commercial Transactions in Asia Pacific’ on Wednesday, February 21, 2024.

Business compliance in international transactions across the Asia-Pacific region holds immense importance for organizations seeking to expand their activities within this dynamic and evolving landscape. Multinational corporations operating in Asia Pacific often confront unique compliance challenges due to the swiftly changing regulatory and geopolitical environment in the region.

The event will take place at the Camperdown campus of the University of Sydney Law School in Sydney, Australia, on Wednesday February 21, 2024. The primary language of the conference will be English.

We will also be holding a celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the Shanghai Winter School program after the conference. You will need to register separately for this event. Please find further details here.

Queers in Conversation

NSW Council for Civil Liberties & Australian Lawyers for Human Rights 

27 February 2024; 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM 

Burdekin Hotel, 2 Oxford St, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010

Institute Member and President of NSW Council Civil liberties, Mr Josh Pallas has organised a panel discussion on protest, policing and Mardi Gras. 

Given changes to the relationship between Mardi Gras and police and the violence that we've seen affecting the queer community recently, this panel discussion will bring together activists, advocacy and legal queers and allies to share in some queer joy and hope during the Mardi Gras festivities. Institute Member, Dr Louise Boon-Kuo will be one of the panel speakers.

The FAIR - The Festival of AI + Robotics 

18-19 March 2024

Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre

Institute Co-Deputy Director, Dr Allan McCay has been invited to speak at The FAIR - The Festival of AI + Robotics. The FAIR will open the door to collaborating on critical and innovative technology solutions and ideas to solve today’s major issues
and challenges. 

For more information, see here. 

Considerations to brain-computer interface and neuro-technology advancements

Dr Allan McCay was interviewed on the range of applications, Australian and international frameworks and the ethical issues related to emerging neurotechnologies.

See here.

Institute member, Dr Christopher Rudge authored an article titled, ' Choosing a new doctor? Their sexual misconduct may soon be on the record' 

Dr Carolyn McKay is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Sydney Law School where she teaches Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and Digital Criminology. She is the Co-Director, Sydney Institute of Criminology.

Dr. Carolyn McKay is recognised for her research into technologies in justice published in her monograph, ‘ The Pixelated Prisoner: Prison video links, court ‘appearance’ and the justice matrix’ (2018) Routledge. Throughout 2021 - 2024, Carolyn is undertaking her ARC Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA) 'The Digital Criminal Justice Project: Vulnerability and the Digital Subject', focusing on digitalised justice and digital vulnerability.

Dr. Carolyn McKay serves on the NSW Bar Association's Media Information Law & Technology Committee and Women Lawyers Association of NSW Committee . She has been a Visiting Researcher at Radboud University, the Netherlands 2023, a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford 2019 and for 3 months at the Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Spain 2013-14. Dr McKay previously consulted on anti-dumping trade disputes and indirect taxation in both Sydney and Tokyo. She also has a visual arts practice and, in 2023, she was the recipient of the Council of Law Deans’ Australian Legal Research Award for non-traditional research output for her Crime Scene Motel Project.

Dr Carolyn McKay has co-authored an article titled, 'Digital vulnerability: People-in-prison, videoconferencing and the digital criminal justice system'. 

Read here. 

Anthony Albanese wants stronger doxing laws. Experts aren't so sure

Dr Carolyn Mckay noted that there are already laws to protect against doxing and urged the need to "be cautious about just rushing in new legislation".

See here. 

Dr Carolyn McKay was interviewed to discuss the Government's response to mass Jewish Doxing. 

See here.

Mikayla Perry is a BA/LLB student at The University of Sydney Law School. She was an intern at Sydney Institute of Criminology during semester 2, 2023. 

Mikayla was one of the participants of the Jessup International Law Moot team for 2024 and made it into the national finals. Mikayla was declared as the best speaker in the grand final; she was also the best speaker in the preliminary rounds. Mikayla’s average score was record-breaking.  

Congratulation to Mikayla and the entire team!

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.

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 . 

Post Doc Research Fellow - ARC Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence Against Women

University of Melbourne 

Applications close: 05 March 2024 

The University of Melbourne is seeking for a Post Doc Research Fellow to work as part of a team in partnership with with ARC Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (CEVAW) researchers, Partner Investigators and Organisations.

For more information, see here. 

The University of Sheffield is making a significant investment in Criminology by appointing up to two Chairs and one Senior Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Law, following its strong performance in REF2021. 

Chairs

Application close: 09 April 2024

The Chair posts are open to applicants from all areas of criminology and/or criminal justice, with expertise in the international/global dimensions of the discipline. University of Sheffield are looking for scholars with potential to lead the CCR in the future, working with and involving colleagues in different disciplines from within and beyond the University. 

For more information, see here. 

Senior Lecturer

Application close: 09 April 2024

The Senior Lecturer post is also open to applicants from all areas of criminology and/or criminal justice, but University of Sheffield are especially keen to attract excellent applicants in the areas of Crime and Technology and/or Green Criminology. 

For more information, see here. 

Call for abstracts: Punishment in Global Peripheries 

University of Oxford, National University of Litoral 

Deadline: 01 April 2024 

In 2021, the first international conference ‘Punishment in Global Peripheries’ was held online in an attempt to challenge the Northern-centric approach that has dominated the literature on punishment and society.

The fourth International conference ‘Punishment in Global Peripheries’ will take place in Santa Fe (Argentina). Contribuitons on punishment in peripheral contexts and papers that particularly engage and explore with the following topics are welcomed: 

- Past and present effects of imperialism and colonialism in contemposry penality 

- Travels of penal policies and knowledge across core and peripheral contexts, and within peripheral contexts and regions 

- Complexities and peculiar features of penal trends, institutions and practices in peripheral settings

- Innovative methodological and theoretical perspectives to think of peripheral realisties and penalities 

Submission of Abstracts: 

Please send an abstract of up to 300 words by 01 April 2024 to delitoysociedad@unl.edu.ar  with your name, affiliation and email address. In the document, indicate whether you intend to participate in the conference in person or online. There is limited funding available for speakers' accommodation, so please indiciate whether you want to be considered for that. Proposals should be in a word format, and their title should be the author's surname. Decisions shall be communicated no later than 15 April 2024. Authors whose abstracts are accepted should sent their papers (6,000 - 8,000 words) by 10 July 2024. 

This event will be held in a hybrid format, physically taking place in the National University of Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina, but online participation will also be made possible. 

This conference is hosted by the Global Criminal Justice Hub of the Oxford Centre for Criminology (United Kingdom) and the Programme Crime & Society and the Master in Criminology, National University of Litoral (Argentina). 

Call for Abstracts: Strengthening Connections: The Power of Relationships and Strong Service Partnerships

16th April – 18th April 2024

In collaboration with the Department of Justice and Community Safety Victoria, the Australasian Youth Justice Administrators (AYJA) are partnering with the Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science at Swinburne University of Technology to deliver the 5th Australasian Youth Justice Conference. 

The conference is a three-day event of presentations, keynote addresses, Q & A, and panel discussions. The overrepresentation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, and Māori young people will be a critical focus of the conference, and responsive and holistic approaches to address overrepresentation issues will be threaded throughout the conference program.

For more information, see here. 

Australian Institute of Criminology

Police body-worn camera (BWC) technologies—affixed to a vest, sunglasses or cap—are deployed by all Australian police agencies, including in frontline responses to domestic and family violence (DFV). This paper presents the findings from the first Australian study focused on how women DFV victim-survivors view and experience BWCs in police call-outs and legal proceedings. Informed by a national survey of 119 victim-survivors, it explores two key concerns relating to the potential consequences of BWC footage: (1) it may facilitate misidentification of the primary aggressor, and (2) perpetrators may use the BWC to present (false) evidence of themselves as blameless.

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