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Academic Terror: Ideology in Analysis
(Flinders University School of Law, 2008-04)The purpose of academic writing is to analyse. Although this is true of the form, there is still room within analysis to move into ideological veins, putting forward views alongside analysis or sometimes in place of it. ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The Case for Single Cells and Alternative Ways of viewing
(Flinders University School of Law, 2008-04)Until recently there was an assumption that Australian Aboriginal prisoners should be accommodated in dual occupancy or dormitory accommodation while in custody to best meet cultural needs, primarily to prevent social ... -
Contents Vol 10, Issue 3
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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 ... -
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 ... -
Differences between Groups of Drivers: Offences Contrasted with Crashes
(Flinders University School of Law, 2008-04)If an intervention can be shown to affect the number of driving offences, is this also evidence that it has an effect on road crashes? We summarise two recent studies in which we found a difference between groups in respect ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Foreword
(Flinders University School of Law, 2008-04)Foreword to THE FLINDERS JOURNAL OF LAW REFORM VOLUME 10 ISSUE 3 (2007/8) — Special Electronic Edition — ANZSOC Conference Proceedings — Select Papers -
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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It's all about risk, isn't it? Science, politics, public opinion and regulatory reform
(Flinders University School of Law, 2008-04)Like most Western democracies, Australia has seen constant business complaints about the regulatory burden and the need for reform. Governments have been sympathetic to these concerns and initiated numerous enquiries into ... -
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 ... -
Measuring Offender Discount Rates: An Overview of the Issues and a Suggested Methodology
(Flinders University School of Law, 2008-04)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. ... -
Passports to advantage:Health and capacity building as a basis for social integration
(Flinders University School of Law, 2008-04)Released prisoners are characterised by chronic social disadvantage, poor physical and mental health, and high rates of substance misuse – a continuation of problems experienced prior to imprisonment. High rates of recidivism ... -
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 ...