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0000-0001-6268-1313
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University of South Australia
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Research Topics
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Top 5 Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Law | Justice Systems And Administration | Interorganisational Information Systems | Detection And Prevention Of Crime; Security Services | Interior And Environmental Design | Criminology | Architectural Design | Access to Justice | Public Policy | Information Systems | Police Administration, Procedures And Practice | Management Accounting
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Law enforcement | Justice and the law not elsewhere classified | Computer software and services not elsewhere classified | Management | Criminal Justice | Political science and public policy | Commercial security services | Legal Processes |
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Publications
Access to Safe Justice in Australian Courts: Some Reflections upon Intelligence, Design and Process
Publisher: Queensland University of Technology
Date: 11-09-2013
Abstract: There have been great strides taken in Australia recently to make our courts safer, principally through an emphasis on risk management. After all, governments have a responsibility to protect those who work in, or who visit, court precincts. A greater understanding of how court safety can be enhanced by managing people, curial processes and the court environment requires assessing the physical mechanisms of risk management alongside a ‘needs-focus’ of stakeholders’ safety considerations. At the same time there must be a focus on enabling participation and well-being in justice processes. By examining the way in which courts now operate around Australia and the developments in security intelligence, court design and processes, this paper seeks to outline how access to safe justice is possible.
Addressing identity crime in crime management information systems: Definitions, classification, and empirics
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2012
Law reform targeting crime and disorder
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2017
The Partial “Decriminalisation” of Cannabis: The South Australian Experience
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-1994
The Public, the Police and Australian Gun Policies
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 1996
The Evolution of Security Industry Regulation in Australia: A Critique
Publisher: Queensland University of Technology
Date: 05-11-2012
Abstract: This paper charts the main changes in security industry regulation in Australia from the 1980s to the present time, and provides a critique of the regulatory framework and the change process. Change has largely been driven by recurring conduct scandals, with governments obliged to introduce increasingly more stringent integrity checks and competency standards in an attempt to diminish widespread concerns about the industry. Despite the lack of strategic planning, a significant learning process is evident and a clear model of best practice has emerged. Recent enquiries show that Australia still does not have an optimal system for managing the industry but change has been in the right direction, with scope for fine-tuning to ensure more responsive and effective regulation.
Race, Gender, and Class in Criminology
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 22-12-2015
Conclusion: Minimizing Crime Risks in Pandemics of the Future
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2023
The First World War and Conscientious Objection in Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-11-2019
Ten key developments in modern policing: an Australian perspective
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-10-2016
The Surveillance Society: A Criminological Perspective
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 13-12-2016
Perspectives on Policing Post-pandemic Cybercrime
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2023
Addressing identity crime in crime management information systems: Definitions, classification, and empirics
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 05-07-2017
Book Review: Policing non-citizens
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 17-02-2015
A Review of the Cannabis Expiation Notice Scheme in South Australia—Research Note
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-1990
DOI: 10.1177/000486589002300408
Abstract: The South Australian government in 1987 made widespread changes to the law concerning the possession and use of small amounts of cannabis. The implications of these changes are reviewed in a report of the Office of Crime Statistics entitled ‘Cannabis: The Expiation Notice Approach’.1 It is my intention in this paper to provide an overview of this report for the purpose of introducing readers to its major findings.
The ‘three-pillars model of regulation’: a fusion of governance models for private security
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 02-12-2019
Privatisation of Police: Themes from Australia
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 23-12-2017
Policing and security
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 29-11-2020
Trends and Issues in Corporate Security Practice and Regulation in Australia
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Date: 2014
Christian approaches to the restorative justice movement: Observations on scripture and praxis
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2011
Responding to cybercrime
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 20-09-2018
Challenging spiralling remand in custody rates: what legal and procedural changes can address the trend?
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 19-09-2016
DOI: 10.1108/JCRPP-08-2015-0035
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to draw to the attention of parliamentarians and policy-makers the specific vulnerabilities of applicants for bail that need to be addressed if there are to be any answers to the current malaise. Almost a quarter of the adult prison population in Australia is made up of persons imprisoned awaiting trial. By looking at current data and recent research findings, the paper reveals that there persists in Australia great unevenness in remand distributions by jurisdiction. The paper explains why there are differences in remand rates across Australia and why they are rising and draws from more recent snapshots that complement these findings from comprehensive studies conducted a decade ago. Furthermore it examines ideas floated in the last decade by academics and practitioners keen to lower remand rates and to bring some uniformity to the process while keeping intact the two key (yet potentially contradictory) aims of the remand in custody system: the safety of the community and the presumption of innocence. The paper’s findings will appeal to parliamentarians and policy-makers tasked with bringing about law reform in the field, as well as police leaders, correctional advisors and students of the legal process.
Religion Matters
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 2020
Metadata Retention as a Means of Combatting Terrorism and Organised Crime: A Perspective from Australia
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 04-08-2017
The Influence of Gaming Expenditure on Crime Rates in South Australia: A Local Area Empirical Investigation
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 24-07-2007
DOI: 10.1007/S10899-007-9070-8
Abstract: Although there has been much speculation about the possible links between gambling and crime rates, relevant quantitative evidence has been practically non-existent in Australia to date. This paper reports the results of research that utilised a model designed to investigate the potential relationship between electronic gaming machine expenditures and property (income-generating) crime rates reported to police in local areas in South Australia in 2002-2003. The research found that the higher the expenditures on gaming machines in a particular local area per adult, the higher the income-generating crime rate in that area. No such relationship was found between gaming machine expenditure and non-income-generating crime rates. However, further research is required before any policy-relevant conclusions can be drawn.
Balancing Privacy with Legitimate Surveillance and Lawful Data Access
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Date: 07-2015
DOI: 10.1109/MCC.2015.84
Developing a Risk Profile and Model Regulatory System for the Security Industry
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 04-08-2008
Community safety, crime prevention, and 21st century policing
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 29-11-2020
Refugees: Is it Time for a New International Definition?
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 02-1996
Intelligence-sharing in the context of policing transnational serious and organized crime: a note on policy and practice in an Australian setting
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 20-09-2018
The Contemporary Relevance of Religion to Criminological Sciences
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 2020
Legal and technical issues of privacy preservation in data mining
Publisher: IGI Global
Date: 2009
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-010-3.CH180
Abstract: To paraphrase Winograd (1992), we bring to our communities a tacit comprehension of right and wrong that makes social responsibility an intrinsic part of our culture. Our ethics are the moral principles we use to assert social responsibility and to perpetuate safe and just societies. Moreover, the introduction of new technologies can have a profound effect on our ethical principles. The emergence of very large databases, and the associated automated data analysis tools, present yet another set of ethical challenges to consider. Socio-ethical issues have been identified as pertinent to data mining and there is a growing concern regarding the (ab)use of sensitive information (Clarke, 1999 Clifton et al., 2002 Clifton and Estivill-Castro, 2002 Gehrke, 2002). Estivill-Castro et al., discuss surveys regarding public opinion on personal privacy that show a raised level of concern about the use of private information (Estivill-Castro et al., 1999). There is some justification for this concern a 2001 survey in InfoWeek found that over 20% of companies store customer data with information about medical profile and/or customer demographics with salary and credit information, and over 15% store information about customers’ legal histories.
Tertiary Education in Security and Policing in Australia
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 23-09-2009
Recent legal developments in Australia
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-12-2015
Why Religion Matters, or, Does It Matter?
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 2020
Issues in courtroom security: A key role for the private sector in Australia and New Zealand
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 07-03-2011
DOI: 10.1057/SJ.2011.3
Police and Security Officer Experiences of Occupational Violence and Injury in Australia
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-2011
DOI: 10.1350/IJPS.2011.13.3.239
Abstract: This study employed national workers' compensation data to examine and compare the nature and prevalence of work-related injuries and occupational violence experienced by Australian security officers and police between 2000 and 2008. The study found that while security officers' work-related injuries overall occurred at half the rate of police officers', the rates of occupational violence were about equal and followed the same trend over time — rising during the mid 2000s and then declining steadily. However, injuries to security officers appeared more serious than those experienced by police. Security officers were twice as likely to sustain a head injury and, on average, lost about six weeks more work than police. Compared with all other Australian occupations, security and police were in the top three highest claiming occupations for work-related injuries and deaths from occupational violence, with security officers at number one in both instances. The findings add to the very limited literature on injuries and violence experienced by police and security officers. However, the findings also show the need for more research on the specific situational factors involved in injuries and on what works in prevention.
The Palgrave Handbook of Australian and New Zealand Criminology, Crime and Justice
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2017
Policing in South Australia’s remote and rural communities: preliminary observations from a novel police diversionary strategy for young Indigenous offenders
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2009
European Developments in Corporate Criminal Liability
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 10-06-2011
The Regulation of Private Policing: Reviewing Mechanisms of Accountability
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 07-1999
Policing Major Events in Australia: A Private Security Model of Police Cooperation
Publisher: CRC Press
Date: 28-10-2014
DOI: 10.1201/B17692-8
The dock on trial: courtroom design and the presumption of innocence
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-08-2017
DOI: 10.1111/JOLS.12033
Bail practices and policy alternatives in Australia
Publisher: Australian Institute of Criminology
Date: 22-10-2020
DOI: 10.52922/TI04589
Abstract: In this paper we seek to review the rapid rise in remand in custody rates in Australia. In particular, and in response, we ask and discuss three specific questions: 1. To what extent do defendants applying for bail have vulnerabilities? 2. To what extent can risk analysis tools that seek to predict breach of bail terms be relied upon? 3. To what extent can the emerging pre-trial services programs in Australia reduce remand in custody populations?
International Police Executive Symposium (IPES), 27th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, August 8-13, 2016: rapporteur's report
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 13-02-2017
The Australian Cross-border Justice Scheme: an evaluation of a unique policing experiment
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-01-2016
Penal diversity within Australia
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-2015
Abstract: In this article, we start from internationally developed models explaining growing punitiveness and increasing imprisonment rates, to analyse the penal situation within Australia. While the eight Australian jurisdictions share many of the characteristics that have been identified as being important determinants of the size of the prison population, local features of these societies result in significant differences in punishment. The aim of the article is to describe the main drivers of penal policy in four Australian states (New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia). Specific attention will be paid to the situation of Indigenous peoples and the impact of the country’s colonial history. It will be argued that the explanatory models can explain the trend in the Australian imprisonment rates, but not the different levels between these rates.
Reforming security industry training standards: an Australian case study
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-05-2017
Health promotion and crime prevention: Recognising broader synergies
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 21-03-2013
DOI: 10.1071/HE12907
Beyond ‘What Works?’ A 25-year Jubilee Retrospective of Robert Martinsons Famous Article
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-2001
DOI: 10.1177/000486580103400103
Abstract: The story behind the publication of American sociologist Robert Martinson's 1974 article entitled “What Works?” provides researchers, policy-makers and social science observers with a sobering reminder of the possibilities of research conclusions assuming an inappropriate life of their own. This paper explores briefly the origins of the article and its impact at the time on corrections policy It discusses some of the events since 1974, in both the USA and Australia, that demonstrate the subsequent reification of “Nothing Works”. It is not designed as contributing to the debate on the effectiveness of rehabilitation. Rather the story is used an illustration of the potential for research to fall victim to the dangers of socially constructed realities.
How do we reduce the risk of deaths and injuries from incidents involving police cars? Understanding injury prevention in the Swedish context
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-2010
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Related Funding Activities
Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0348597
Start Date: 02-2004
End Date: 06-2011
Amount: $508,300.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityLinkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0669518
Start Date: 12-2006
End Date: 12-2010
Amount: $166,650.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityLinkage Projects - Grant ID: LP120200288
Start Date: 01-2013
End Date: 06-2017
Amount: $205,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityLinkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0882179
Start Date: 05-2008
End Date: 09-2013
Amount: $270,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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