Precrime: Imagining future crime and a new space for criminology.
by McCulloch, Jude
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Australia and New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference 2009: Conference Proceedings. Pg. 151-162. This paper sets out to describe the contours of the shift from post to precrime taking shape under contemporary counter terrorism measures and to map the implications of this...
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Vigilantes unmasked: An exploration of informal criminal justice in contemporary South Africa.
by Martin, James
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Australia and New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference 2009: Conference Proceedings. Pg. 142-150. Vigilantism has a long and troubling history in the Republic of South Africa. Particularly since the latter days of apartheid, vigilante violence has become a regular feature of...
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Confidence in justice systems: Assessing public opinion.
by Lee, Murray
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Australia and New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference 2009: Conference Proceedings. Pg. 132-141. Public opinion about crime and punishment is playing an increasing role in Australian criminal justice policy. The trend towards policy makers seeking to understand and respond...
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Stranger danger? Cultural constructions of sadistic serial killers in US crime dramas.
by Houlihan, Annette
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Australia and New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference 2009: Conference Proceedings. Pg. 111-121. This paper explores the disruption between popular cultural constructions of crime victims from the corporeality of gendered, heterosexual violence. Within popular culture, women...
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Multiple punishments: The detention and removal of convicted non-citizens.
by Grewcock, Michael
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Australia and New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference 2009: Conference Proceedings. Pg. 101-110. Under the Migration Act (1958), being imprisoned for a criminal offence can constitute grounds for visa cancellation, even for people who have spent most of their lives in...
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Non-transparent justice & the plea bargaining process in Victoria.
by Flynn, Asher
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Australia and New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference 2009: Conference Proceedings. Pg. 88-100. This paper examines the veil of secrecy surrounding plea bargaining in Victoria. Drawing upon the findings of a three-year research project that observed participants within...
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‘Till death do us part: Judging the men who kill their intimate partners.
by Fitz-Gibbon, Kate
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Australia and New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference 2009: Conference Proceedings. Pg. 78-87. This paper examines the construction of masculinity in judge’s sentencing remarks across seventeen cases of male perpetrated intimate femicide sentenced between March 2005...
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Identifiable, queer and risky: The role of the body in policing experiences for LGBT young people.
by Dwyer, Angela
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Australia and New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference 2009: Conference Proceedings. Pg. 69-77. This paper explores how visibly non-heteronormative bodies mediate policing experiences of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) young people, an area that has been mostly...
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Intelligence support to law enforcement: Untangling the Gordian Knot.
by Corkill, Jeff
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Australia and New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference 2009: Conference Proceedings. Pg. 60-68. A review of the literature on intelligence in the law enforcement environment will return information on “intelligence led policingâ€, crime intelligence, crime analysis...
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Police bail decision-making in Victoria: Private decisions, public consequences.
by Colvin, Emma
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Australia and New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference 2009: Conference Proceedings. Pg. 51-59. This paper will present the results of a Masters’ thesis, which explored the importance of the bail decision in the criminal justice system, specifically in relation to...
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Surviving outside: Bearing witness to women’s post-release experiences of survival and death.
by Carlton, Bree
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Australia and New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference 2009: Conference Proceedings. Pg. 41-50. While there is a growing and important body of research examining post-release support, survival and issues related to recidivism and desistance there remains a dearth of knowledge...
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Mainstreaming problem-oriented justice: Issues and challenges.
by Bartels, Lorana
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Australia and New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference 2009: Conference Proceedings. Pg. 31-40. This paper grapples with the challenges of introducing features of specialty courts into the mainstream criminal justice system. Specialty courts were first introduced in Australia...
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Prisons and vulnerable persons: Institutions and patriarchy.
by Baldry, Eileen
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Australia and New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference 2009: Conference Proceedings. Pg. 18-30. The prison has been developing into a mixed mode institution with large numbers of vulnerable persons, including Aboriginal women and people with mental illness and cognitive...
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Sentencing indigenous resisters as if the death in custody never occurred.
by Anthony, Thalia
June 4, 2015
Source: (2009) Australia and New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference 2009: Conference Proceedings. Pg. 6-17. This paper addresses the trends in sentencing by higher courts of Indigenous protesters against ‘white’ racist violence. It contrasts earlier sentencing decisions...
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Accountability in school responses to harmful incidents.
by Calhoun, Avery
June 4, 2015
Source: (2008) Journal of School Violence. 7(4): 21-47. While it is generally agreed that students responsible for misbehavior should be held accountable, the meaning of accountability and how it might best be achieved appear to remain ill-defined. In this article, we propose that...
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