Browsing April 2008 by Issue Date
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Developments in the Australian Private Security Industry
(Flinders University School of Law, 2008-04)Police necessarily retain the major role in enforcing the law after crimes have been committed and offenders have been apprehended. However, given that public sector policing draws heavily on equipment and personnel ... -
Policing the ‘Bastard Boys’: Reality and Significance of the Police-Union ‘Accord’ during the National Waterfront Dispute
(Flinders University School of Law, 2008-04)ABC Channel 2’s compelling and controversial dramatisation of the bitter and protracted 1998 national waterfront dispute, ‘Bastard Boys’, contained fleeting glimpses of friendly police accommodation of the sacked wharfies. ... -
Contractualism and Policing in the Public Interest
(Flinders University School of Law, 2008-04)Once, police largely depended on their status as the embodiment of the State’s monopoly on coercive force to obtain the assistance they needed to do their job. Today they are increasingly reliant on formalised arrangements ... -
Cannabis and the Risk of Crash Involvement
(Flinders University School of Law, 2008-04)Drugs have long been a focus of law enforcement in Australia but recent legislation in a number of Australian states now requires routine drug testing of drivers (testing for cannabis and methamphetamine), with the stated ... -
Theoretically Sustainable Risks
(Flinders University School of Law, 2008-04)Whether through various risk assessment models, Foucault’s emphasis on governmentality, Ericson’s emphasis on insecurity or Beck’s broader risk society, the concept of risk is frequently drawn upon in criminological theory. ... -
An Exploration of the Experience of Interaction between the Police and Juvenile Offenders in Taiwan
(Flinders University School of Law, 2008-04)By developing Foucault’s concepts of power, this paper aims to explore the interaction experience between Taiwanese police and juvenile offenders from a critical perspective. From macro analysis of social discourse to micro ... -
Contents Vol 10, Issue 3
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Approaching Responsivity: The Victorian Department of Justice and Indigenous Offenders
(Flinders University School of Law, 2008-04)Offender rehabilitation has developed a stronghold on correctional practice in the past two decades. Further strengthening this grip have been three main principles for effective practice; risk, needs and responsivity. ... -
Evaluating the Australasian Consumer Fraud Awareness Month, 2007
(Flinders University School of Law, 2008-04)As part of a global effort to fight mass-marketed consumer scams, consumer protection agencies in 33 western countries have participated in a month of fraud prevention activities each year to raise awareness of the problem ... -
How the Sex Industry Market Determines the Distribution of Smuggling Hot Spots in Taiwan: An Empirical Study of Illegal Immigration of Mainland Chinese Females to Taiwan
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Australian Crime Trends and Population Ageing:A Quantified Perspective
(Flinders University School of Law, 2008-04)Given that 15-24 year olds have a higher incidence of criminal involvement than other age groups, structural ageing can be expected to have a profound impact on crime trends. The purpose of this paper is to present preliminary ... -
The Revolving Door of Penal Institutions – A Narration of Lived Experience
(Flinders University School of Law, 2008-04)Remand to prison whilst awaiting trial can be seen as a short yet indeterminate prison sentence without the judicial sanction of criminal responsibility. Given the increasing reliance on remand as a targeted strategy for ... -
The USA PATRIOT Acts (et al): Collective Amnesia, Paranoia and Convergent, Oligarchic Legislation in the ‘Politics of Fear’
(Flinders University School of Law, 2008-04)Comparative analysis has been ignored in recent decades as the mantra of ‘convergence’ has taken hegemonic forms under globalisation and, more recently, under the exporting of a United States–inspired ‘exceptionalism’ ... -
Legal Services and Neo-Liberalism in an Unequal Legal Order
(Flinders University School of Law, 2008-04)In 1975 the landmark ‘Law and Poverty in Australia’ report (Sackville 1975a) sought to ensure substantive rather than formal equality before the law for all Australians. A fundamental aspect of its proposals was an extensive ... -
Police Education Past and Present: Perceptions of Australian Police Managers and Academics
(Flinders University School of Law, 2008-04)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 ... -
What Once Was Old Is New Again: Reviving An Early-Modern Form Of Interdisciplinarity For Socio-Legal Studies
(Flinders Univeristy School of Law, 2008-04)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 ... -
Bail Supervision and Young People: Pathway or Freeway?
(Flinders University School of Law, 2008-04)Over the past decade bail legislation reform has curtailed the presumption in favour of bail and enabled its therapeutic use. Arguably such changes transform the traditional role of bail as a means of ensuring a defendant’s ... -
Fit for Purpose: Working with the Community to Strengthen Policing in Victoria, Australia
(Flinders University School of Law, 2008-04)Victoria is the Australian police jurisdiction that has made community engagement most central to its operating philosophy. In 1999, it adopted Local Priority Policing (LPP) as a core operation principle. LPP focused on ... -
Regulating our Natural Resources - Farmers Friend or Farmers Foe? Have Regulators got the mix Right?
(Flinders University School of Law, 2008-04)There is growing community acceptance of regulatory compliance activities that address the misuse and poor management of our natural resources. However, in some areas and industries, there is still a significant degree ... -
A Study on Factors Affecting the Abstention of Drug Abuse in Private Rehabilitation Institutes in Taiwan — Operation Dawn Taiwan as an Example
(Flinders University School of Law, 2008-04)The purpose of this study is to understand problems of the abstention of drug abuse in Taiwan. Comparing the model of Operation Dawn Taiwan with that of the government’s official rehabilitation institutes, this paper aims ...