How should English courts respond to children who commit crime?
Last week the Parliamentary Inquiry into the Operation and Effectiveness of the Youth Court released their final report. The report…
Clare Farmer examines the legitimacy of police imposed punishments for alcohol violence
Last week, Deakin Criminologist Clare Farmer (Associate Lecturer and Doctoral Candidate) presented a paper at the Crime Prevention and Communities Conference in Melbourne…
Deakin Criminologist Wendy O’Brien highlights problems in national responses to child on child sexual abuse
Data from schools across Australia reveals a concerning picture in which children as young as six are sexually assaulted by…
Darren Palmer comments on Chief Commissioner’s plan for police taskforces
Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police Ken Lay has flagged the possibility of a police restructure to favour the introduction of…
Deakin Criminologists respond to Geelong taxi ID scanning scheme
The Victorian government has proposed the introduction of a new scheme to scan the ID of all Geelong taxi passengers.…
Deakin Criminologists contribute to Victorian Human Rights & Equal Opportunity Commission public inquiry
Over the last 12 months, the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission (VEOHRC) has been conducting a public inquiry…
Article by Deakin Criminologist questions why prison rape remains a joke
Deakin Criminologist Dr Richard Evans has had an article, ‘Prison rape: Is it OK to make jokes about rape in…
Darren Palmer interviewed on ‘Police Guidelines – When should police shoot?’
Deakin criminologist Associate Prof Darren Palmer was interviewed yesterday morning on Radio 3, RTHK. Darren was invited to be a guest…
Searching for justice in Bowraville
By Kate Fitz-Gibbon In 1990/91, over a five-month period, three children were murdered in the small town of Bowraville, New…
Forthcoming Conference – Homicide Law Reform in Victoria: Prospects and Retrospect
HOMICIDE LAW REFORM IN VICTORIA: PROSPECTS AND RETROSPECT 2014 marks a decade since the release of the Victorian Law Reform…
Vietnamese Australians and the Heroin Trade
Research published this week by Deakin Criminologist Dr Richard Evans applies the theory ofresource curse to disadvantaged migrant communities and…
Baird must revisit O’Farrell’s mandatory sentencing laws
In today’s Sydney Morning Herald, Deakin criminologist Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon has authored an op-ed encouraging the new NSW Premier, Mike…
Just Published: The pursuit of exclusion through zonal banning
Research published today in the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology (OnlineFirst) by Deakin Criminology’s Associate Professor Darren Palmer and Dr…
The injustice of the provocation defence in NSW continues
On Friday, Yassir Ibrahim Mohamed Hassan was sentenced in the NSW Supreme Court to a maximum term of 12 years imprisonment,…
Kate Fitz-Gibbon responds to NSW provocation law reform
In NSW Parliament today Fred Nile introduced the Crimes Amendment (Provocation) Bill 2014 [NSW]. While debate was adjourned, several parliamentary…
Another surveillance story – Yahoo webcam images being captured
Two major surveillance stories today The first is about the surveillance and ‘collection’ of web cam images: GCHQ and NSA capturing…