The Flinders Journal of Law Reform is a refereed, scholarly journal with a national and international outlook. http://hdl.handle.net/2328/1822 2013-05-03T08:15:11Z 2013-05-03T08:15:11Z http://hdl.handle.net/2328/1854 2008-06-20T04:50:08Z 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Contents Vol 10, Issue 3

2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Wickham, Gary Kendall, Gavin http://hdl.handle.net/2328/1853 2008-06-20T04:48:44Z 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Title: What Once Was Old Is New Again: Reviving An Early-Modern Form Of Interdisciplinarity For Socio-Legal Studies Authors: Wickham, Gary; Kendall, Gavin Abstract: Socio-legal studies are an essentially interdisciplinary enterprise. However, there is currently only one form of interdisciplinarity that most socio-legal scholars (and criminologists) recognise and work with. This form is derived from the idea that 'society itself' - and by this most scholars mean ‘civil society’ - drives the law. However, another, rival understanding of society, which we term the authoritarian-liberal statist understanding that slipped from view in the late seventeenth century and remained obscure from then until now, may be used to generate another form of interdisciplinarity for socio-legal studies (and for criminology). However, this rival understanding of society does not simply allow us to reconfigure our notion of ‘society’; it radically changes the role society plays in relation to the law. Two crucial points emerge from this rival account: first, society can no longer be understood as separable from (even though interacting with) the law; and second, society can no longer be understood as driving the law.

2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Trofymowych, Delaine http://hdl.handle.net/2328/1852 2008-06-20T04:49:50Z 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Police Education Past and Present: Perceptions of Australian Police Managers and Academics Authors: Trofymowych, Delaine Abstract: In an effort to modernise police organisations and professionalise policing, it is becoming increasingly common for police today to obtain formal university qualifications. Within the Australian context, the National Police Professionalism Implementation Advisory Committee (NPPIAC) recommended in 1990 that police pursue full professional status reflecting national education standards underpinned by university qualifications. This paper explores, from a national perspective, key stakeholders’ perceptions about police university education and professionalism. Forty in-depth interviews were carried out with police managers and academics occupying pivotal positions in police education from across Australia. Both police managers and academics had generally favourable views towards university education for police and working together in the delivery of policing courses. However, in contrast to the NPPIAC recommendations, perspectives about the professional status of police and the actual role of university education in police organisations, differed. In addition, there were a variety of views about imposing mandatory requirements on police to complete university courses. This paper is part of a larger study into university education for police managers and presents the preliminary findings of one phase of the study.

2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Torre, Andrew http://hdl.handle.net/2328/1851 2008-06-20T04:49:50Z 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Measuring Offender Discount Rates: An Overview of the Issues and a Suggested Methodology Authors: Torre, Andrew Abstract: Criminologists assert that some offenders exhibit impulsive behaviour. If this is correct then this impulsiveness will manifest itself through high discount rates. However discount rates are difficult to observe and measure. In this paper a methodology is proposed, which considerably reduces the complexity of this task, through observing the offender’s actual plea decision. This is a valuable exercise because the results can be usefully utilised in formulating policy as well as providing insights into offender psychology.

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