Month: August 2018

Prof. Makoto Ibusuki1 1Seijo University, Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan Recently in Japan, a number of projects supporting the rehabilitation of defendants in the criminal justice system launched not only in the court procedure but also in other processes before/after indictment.  This...

Dr Warren Brookbanks1 1Aut Law School, Mount Eden, Auckland, New Zealand Recent writing around violence and its psychological precursors has revealed some compelling insights into the motivations for violence and its emotional  drivers. Understanding these might better equip policy-makers, public...

Dr Bob Montgomery1 1Private practice, Southport, Australia Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) people are a relatively small proportion of the total Australian population but make up a disproportionately large proportion of Australians facing our courts and incarcerated in our...

Mr Gregory Dale1 1University Of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia Crime does not simply affect people; it touches places too. The bloody crime scene remains a target of disgust long after its visible stains have vanished, creating lasting distances between the...

Dr Peter Anderson1 1Berry Road Forensic Practice, St Leonards Nsw, St Leonards, Australia Background The author has examined 30 former NSW police officers taking common law action, suing the State of NSW for negligent breach of duty of care. All...

Dr Loene Howes1 1University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia High-quality interpreting is essential to providing equitable access to justice. This presentation considers what can be learned from interpreters’ ethical dilemmas in policing and legal contexts. A developing profession, interpreting is characterised...

Ms Katalin Kraszlan1 1Department Of Justice, Perth , Australia Victim voices are not the loudest and their history of exclusion from decision making in the criminal justice system has continually placed them at the periphery of the system and our...

Mr Mike Guerzoni1 1School Of Social Sciences, University Of Tasmania, Sandy Bay  , Australia The sacrament of confession is criticised for impeding clerical reporting of information about child sexual abuse to authorities. The sacrament of confession is found within Catholicism...

Prof. Olav Nielssen1 1Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Background: There have been an increasing number of clergymen, and also lay teachers, charged with sexual offences against children, many of them quite historic Aim: To describe the demographic, clinical and criminological features...

Prof. Mark Nolan1 1ANU Law School, ANU College Of Law, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia In this paper, three new Australian regimes of post-sentence detention of those assessed to be at risk of committing terrorism offences will be critically...