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ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Other Behavioural And Cognitive Sciences | Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified | Psychology | Criminology | Public Health and Health Services | Social And Community Psychology | Social Change | Sociology Not Elsewhere Classified | Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified | Environmental Management And Rehabilitation | Criminology |
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Cultural Understanding not elsewhere classified | Justice and the law not elsewhere classified | Environmental education and awareness | Environmental health | Social Structure and Health | Other social development and community services | Rural health | Men's Health | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander development and welfare
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Making Sense of Indigenous Youth Night Patrols
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 21-03-2019
Abstract: We use Weick’s sense-making and Lipsky’s street-level bureaucracy to tease out understandings and perspectives about youth night patrol services in New South Wales, Australia. We examine synergies, tensions, and contradictions in the different ways participants make sense of the purpose of youth night patrols and their role in service delivery. Although all the service were based on the same model, used the same program logic, and reported against the same measureable outcomes, they all looked different on the ground. We explore these differences in the light of participants’ sense-making efforts, demonstrating that a unitary policy does not necessarily result in similarity of program delivery.
Strange and stranger ruralities: Social constructions of rural crime in Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2015
Book Review: Deviance Conformity and Social Control (4th Edn) Sharyn L. Roach Anleu Sydney: Pearson, 2006
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-2008
Strong communities and justice practices in the Torres Strait Region
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 20-07-2023
DOI: 10.1177/14407833211031299
Abstract: This article examines crime prevention practices in the Torres Strait Region (TSR), where relatively low crime rates challenge the association of discrete Indigenous communities with crime ‘problems’ and also test other criminological assumptions around crime. Drawing on 27 interviews with justice professionals and social workers in the TSR, we account for the resilience of a ‘shame culture’ in the region, which provides for a high level of social integration and sustains crime prevention practices, such as cultural mediation. Thus, we argue that while economic indicators such as wealth and employment show high levels of disadvantage in the TSR, indicators of strong social capital provide an explanation for low crime rates. We conclude that social capital is translated into local crime prevention practices that are unique to the TSR and reinforce the importance of cultural continuity and autonomy.
Sexual health and COVID-19: protocol for a scoping review
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 23-01-2021
DOI: 10.1186/S13643-021-01591-Y
Abstract: Global responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have exposed and exacerbated existing socioeconomic and health inequities that disproportionately affect the sexual health and well-being of many populations, including people of color, ethnic minority groups, women, and sexual and gender minority populations. Although there have been several reviews published on COVID-19 and health disparities across various populations, none has focused on sexual health. We plan to conduct a scoping review that seeks to fill several of the gaps in the current knowledge of sexual health in the COVID-19 era. A scoping review focusing on sexual health and COVID-19 will be conducted. We will search (from January 2020 onwards) CINAHL, Africa-Wide Information, Web of Science Core Collection, Embase, Gender Studies Database, Gender Watch, Global Health, WHO Global Literature on Coronavirus Disease Database, WHO Global Index Medicus, PsycINFO, MEDLINE, and Sociological Abstracts. Grey literature will be identified using Disaster Lit, Google Scholar, governmental websites, and clinical trials registries (e.g., ClinicalTrial.gov , World Health Organization, International Clinical Trials Registry Platform, and International Standard Randomized Controlled Trial Number Registry). Study selection will conform to the Joanna Briggs Institute Reviewers’ Manual 2015 Methodology for JBI Scoping Reviews. Only English language, original studies will be considered for inclusion. Two reviewers will independently screen all citations, full-text articles, and abstract data. A narrative summary of findings will be conducted. Data analysis will involve quantitative (e.g., frequencies) and qualitative (e.g., content and thematic analysis) methods. Original research is urgently needed to mitigate the risks of COVID-19 on sexual health. The planned scoping review will help to address this gap. Systematic Review Registration: Open Science Framework osf/io/PRX8E
A global overview of male escort websites
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 28-11-2017
DOI: 10.1080/00918369.2016.1265356
Abstract: This article details a preliminary dataset of global male escort sites to give insight into the scale of the online market. We conducted a content analysis of 499 Web sites and also measured traffic to these sites. Our analysis examined the structural characteristics of escort services, geographical and regulatory contexts, and resilience of such services. Results suggest that most sites are independent and not affiliated to escort agencies, and the majority cater to male escorts soliciting male clients, with a number of sites for female clientele and couples. These Web sites are dispersed globally, with Asian, European, and South American countries the major hubs in the market and a small number of large multinational sites based in the United States and Europe figuring as a major presence in markets. Although still subject to high levels of regulation in many parts of the world, the data suggest that male escorting is becoming more visible in erse cultural contexts as measured by the number of Web sites appearing in public spaces.
Understanding the new context of the male sex work industry
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-2005
Abstract: The article reviews past and recent research on male sex work to offer a context to understand violence in the industry. It provides a critical review of research to show, first, the assumptions made about male sex workers and violence and, second, how such discourses have shaped thinking on the topic. The article presents a case study and original findings from two studies conducted by the authors in Australia and Argentina on violence in the male sex industry. Finally, the article reviews ex les of legislative reforms to show how the sex industry is being regulated.
Competition paper. Prostitution and public health in New South Wales
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2003
Decriminalization as a Goal
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 20-03-2021
Bang and bust: almost everything you wanted to know about sex and the mining boom (but were afraid to ask)
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-2012
Understanding crime and justice in Torres Strait Islander communities
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2018
New pleasures and old dangers: Reinventing male sex work
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-2013
DOI: 10.1080/00224499.2012.760189
Abstract: Understandings of male sex workers (MSWs) shift with technological, conceptual, and social changes. Research has historically constructed MSWs as psychologically unstable, desperate, or destitute victims and their clients as socially deviant perverts. These perceptions, however, are no longer supported by contemporary research and changing societal perceptions of the sex industry, challenging how we understand and describe "escorts." The changing understandings of sexuality and the increasing power of the Internet are both important forces behind recent changes in the structure and organization of MSWs. The growth in the visibility and reach of escorts has created opportunities to form an occupational account of MSWs that better accounts for the dynamic and erse nature of the MSW experience in the early 21st century. Recent changes in the structure and organization of male sex work have provided visibility to the increasingly erse geographical distribution of MSW, the commodification of race and racialized desire, new populations of heterosexual men and women as clients, and the successful dissemination of safer sexual messages to MSWs through online channels. This article provides a broad overview of the literature on MSWs, concentrating its focus on studies that have emerged over the past 20 years and identifying areas for future research.
Strangers in a strange land: police perceptions of working in discrete Indigenous communities in Queensland, Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-05-2020
Criminal justice, Indigenous youth and social democracy
Publisher: No publisher found
Date: 2013
Globalization, frontier masculinities and violence: booze, blokes and brawls
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 09-02-2010
DOI: 10.1093/BJC/AZQ003
Cultivating local capacity to restructure Nepali governance
Publisher: Routledge India
Date: 21-07-2021
Drinking games participation among female students at a regional Australian university
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-2014
DOI: 10.1080/15332640.2014.892462
Abstract: Participation in drinking games (DGs) by university students is often associated with heavy drinking and negative social and health impacts. Although research in Australia indicates that university students tend to drink at risky levels, there is paucity of literature on DGs among students, especially those residing at regional universities. This research examined drinking among female college students of white background. Eighteen female students participated in face-to-face in-depth interviews to describe their DG experiences. Most women played DGs for social and monetary reasons, with many drinking high volumes of alcohol during the game. Excessive drinking was linked with the type of beverage consumed. Despite knowing the health risks associated with DGs, there was a strong social imperative for these young women to play these games. Research and public health initiatives to better understand and address problematic drinking activities in rural and regional Australia have tended to ignore women and the dominant white populations whose heavy drinking has been largely restricted to private spheres.
The Palgrave handbook of criminology and the global South
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2018
Policing rural victims
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 30-11-2023
Pedophile Hunters and Performing Masculinities Online
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 15-09-2022
Prostitution and public health in New South Wales: Reply to Egger and Harcourt
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2004
The burgeoning recognition and accommodation of the social supply of drugs in international criminal justice systems: An eleven-nation comparative overview
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2018
DOI: 10.1016/J.DRUGPO.2018.05.010
Abstract: It is now commonly accepted that there exists a form of drug supply, that involves the non-commercial supply of drugs to friends and acquaintances for little or no profit, which is qualitatively different from profit motivated 'drug dealing proper'. 'Social supply', as it has become known, has a strong conceptual footprint in the United Kingdom, shaped by empirical research, policy discussion and its accommodation in legal frameworks. Though scholarship has emerged in a number of contexts outside the UK, the extent to which social supply has developed as an internationally recognised concept in criminal justice contexts is still unclear. Drawing on an established international social supply research network across eleven nations, this paper provides the first assessment of social supply as an internationally relevant concept. Data derives from in idual and team research stemming from Australia, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong, the Netherlands, England and Wales, and the United States, supported by expert reflection on research evidence and analysis of sentencing and media reporting in each context. In situ social supply experts addressed a common set of questions regarding the nature of social supply for their particular context including: an overview of social supply research activity, reflection on the extent that differentiation is accommodated in drug supply sentencing frameworks evaluating the extent to which social supply is recognised in legal discourse and in sentencing practices and more broadly by e.g. criminal justice professionals in the public sphere. A thematic analysis of these scripts was undertaken and emergent themes were developed. Whilst having an absence of local research, New Zealand is also included in the analysis as there exists a genuine discursive presence of social supply in the drug control and sentencing policy contexts in that country. Findings suggest that while social supply has been found to exist as a real and distinct behaviour, its acceptance and application in criminal justice systems ranges from explicit through to implicit. In the absence of dedicated guiding frameworks, strong use is made of discretion and mitigating circumstances in attempts to acknowledge supply differentiation. In some jurisdictions, there is no accommodation of social supply, and while aggravating factors can be applied to differentiate more serious offences, social suppliers remain subject to arbitrary deterrent sentencing apparatus. Due to the shifting sands of politics, mood, or geographical disparity, reliance on judicial discretion and the use of mitigating circumstances to implement commensurate sentences for social suppliers is no longer sufficient. Further research is required to strengthen the conceptual presence of social supply in policy and practice as a behaviour that extends beyond cannabis and is relevant to users of all drugs. Research informed guidelines and/or specific sentencing provisions for social suppliers would provide fewer possibilities for inconsistency and promote more proportionate outcomes for this fast-growing group.
Wolf Creek, rurality and the Australian gothic
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 26-03-2010
Understanding crime and justice in Torres Strait Islander communities
Publisher: No publisher found
Date: 2018
Chief editors' introduction
Publisher: Queensland University of Technology
Date: 12-2016
Abstract: The last edition of the journal for 2016 is truly global, with authors from Norway, United States, England, Australia, Mexico and Canada. Articles deal with issues in these countries as well as in Africa, China, Europe, South America and South Korea many articles also have global relevance. This trend is consistent with the increasing internationalisation of knowledge that is occurring as a result of open-access free to publish and download publishing journals. While the ten articles vary greatly in focus, they fit with the journal’s emphasis on the intersections between crime, justice and social democracy.To find out more about the articles in this issue, download the PDF file here.
Male Sex Workers as Students
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2022
Male Internet-based escorting in Argentina
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 20-03-2021
Crime prevention and young people: Models and future direction for youth night patrols
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 18-10-2016
‘Walking in two worlds’: A qualitative review of income management in Cape York
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 26-07-2021
Comparing the effectiveness of education and technology in reducing wood smoke pollution: A field experiment
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2011
Crime and colonisation in Australia's Torres Strait Islands
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 21-08-2019
Abstract: The overrepresentation of Indigenous Australians in the criminal justice system has been thoroughly documented over a number of decades. However, studies tend to adopt homogenising discourses that fail to acknowledge or deeply examine the ersity of Indigenous Australian experiences of crime, including across geographic and cultural contexts. This has prompted calls for a more thorough investigation of how experiences of crime differ across Australia’s Indigenous communities, including between remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. This paper forms part of a larger study, examining crime and justice in the Torres Strait Region, situated off the far northern tip of the State of Queensland. Here, we examine and compare reported crime trends in the Torres Straits with those in Queensland’s remote Aboriginal communities and Queensland State on the whole. We then draw upon existing anthropological, historical and other literature to explore possible explanations for differences in these crime rates. We find that crime rates are generally lower in the Torres Strait Region and that the different historical experiences of colonisation and policing may provide a partial explanation for this, particularly through the lens of social disorganisation theory.
Critical reflections on the operation of Aboriginal night patrols
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2018
Recruiting, sampling and data collection with difficult populations: Clients of male sex workers
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Ltd.
Date: 2014
Established-Outsider Relations and Fear of Crime in Mining Towns
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 20-12-2012
Island Criminology
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Date: 11-01-2023
A qualitative exploration of parental experiences of stigma while living with HIV in Bangladesh
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 17-08-2016
DOI: 10.1080/09540121.2015.1074651
Abstract: With much of the focus on the "risk" groups, families have often been less studied in HIV research. Further, because of a focus on the aetiology and epidemiology of HIV, the social impacts associated with HIV on families and neighbours are sometimes overlooked. This study examined parental experiences of stigma and discrimination while living with HIV within a family context in Bangladesh. A qualitative research design using a grounded theory approach was used for this research. Data was collected through in-depth interviews with 19 HIV-positive parents, recruited with the support of two self-help groups of HIV-positive people, in two settings namely Khulna and Dhaka in Bangladesh. The findings indicate that HIV-positive parents held the view that they continue to experience significant stigma and their narratives clearly show how this affected them and their children. A range of informal practices were enacted in everyday contexts by extended family and community members to identify, demarcate and limit the social interaction of HIV-positive parents. Parents highlighted a number of factors including negative thoughts and behaviours, rejection, isolation and derogatory remarks as manifestations of stigma and discrimination, impacting upon them and their children because of their association with HIV.
Masculinity, Sexuality, and Violence in the Australian Convict Colonies
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 08-09-2023
A new public health context to understand male sex work
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 24-03-2015
A study of the capabilities and limitations of local governments in providing community services in Nepal
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 21-03-2022
Abstract: Corruption and dishonesty in the political and bureaucratic realms have impeded the ability of local governments to provide services and social justice in Nepali society. In light of this, the purpose of this research is to answer the key research question: what are the possibilities and limitations of local government in implementing constitutionally guaranteed rights in order to transform local communities? This study gathered qualitative data from 14 local governments in seven provinces. A total of 56 in-depth interviews were held with elected representatives, political parties, and government officials at both the national and local levels. Both open-ended and open-structured questionnaires were employed for the interviews. The results indicate that capacity is a major constraint for local governments, which should be addressed to achieve successful local governance, inclusive citizen engagement, and strong technical, administrative and fiscal capabilities. Lack of local autonomy, political conflict and social class differences, external engagement, and conservative hierarchic government bureaucracy are major hurdles to growing capacity. This paper analyses the capacity of newly restructured local governments through qualitative approach. It attempts to understand to what extent the Nepali local governments are capable in delivering the services at the local level as closest unit of the citizens.
Desire, belonging and absence in rural places
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-09-2015
'This is not a burning issue for me': How citizens justify their use of wood heaters in a city with a severe air pollution problem
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2013
The social supply of cannabis in Australia: Definitional challenges and regulatory possibilities
Publisher: No publisher found
Date: 2016
Criminology, southern theory and cognitive justice
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2018
The social supply of cannabis in Australia: Definitional challenges and regulatory possibilities
Publisher: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
Date: 2016
Children's experiences of living with HIV-positive parents within the family context of Bangladesh
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2016
Masculinity, rurality and violence
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 23-06-2008
DOI: 10.1093/BJC/AZN031
Strategic review of Cape York Income management
Publisher: Queensland University of Technology
Date: 03-12-2018
Night patrols
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Date: 19-05-2021
The affect heuristic and public support for three types of wood smoke mitigation policies
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-03-2014
Sex outside the city: Sex work in rural and regional New South Wales
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2006
The Routledge Handbook of Male Sex Work, Culture, and Society
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 20-03-2021
Commentary: Reversing the agenda of sex work stigmatization and criminalization: Signs of a progressive society
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 18-01-2018
Deploying nationalist discourses to reduce sex-, gender- and HIV-related stigma in Thailand
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 07-2022
Children living in HIV families: A review
Publisher: OMICS Publishing Group
Date: 2015
Imaginary Drug Control and the Failures of Contemporary Australian Drug Policy
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-2020
Abstract: Contemporary Australian drug policy is characterized by a tension between punitive law and order responses that invoke the myth of sovereign power and responsibilizing strategies that “(re)moralize” in iduals, holding them responsible for their safety, security, and well-being. This article argues that this blending of neoliberal techniques of governance, such as harm minimization, with neoconservative methods of rule typified in prohibitionist policies, presents a paradoxical policy response to illicit drug use. We explore the development and contemporary practice of a dualistic Australian drug policy that, on the one hand, promotes pragmatic interventions based on harm reduction while, on the other, relies on law and order strategies and traditional penal powers to deter illicit drug use. Drawing on Pat Carlen’s concept of imaginary penalities, we argue that this imaginary form of drug control is underpinned largely by symbolic measures that, in attempting to address public demands for safety and security, reproduce a punitive form of governance that fails to achieve its desired outcomes. Using qualitative interview data from a s le of 29 people who used drugs, and 15 professionals working in the drugs field, this article investigates responses to the contemporary governance of illicit drugs in Queensland. Based on the research findings, we argue that the conjoined nature of Australian drugs governance can be understood as imaginary drug control because it constantly recreates the conditions that perpetuate drug-related harm.
Technology, normalisation and male sex work
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-09-2015
DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2014.951396
Abstract: Technological change, particularly the growth of the Internet and smart phones, has increased the visibility of male escorts, expanded their client base and ersified the range of venues in which male sex work can take place. Specifically, the Internet has relocated some forms of male sex work away from the street and thereby increased market reach, visibility and access and the scope of sex work advertising. Using the online profiles of 257 male sex workers drawn from six of the largest websites advertising male sexual services in Australia, the role of the Internet in facilitating the normalisation of male sex work is discussed. Specifically we examine how engagement with the sex industry has been reconstituted in term of better informed consumer-seller decisions for both clients and sex workers. Rather than being seen as a 'deviant' activity, understood in terms of pathology or criminal activity, male sex work is increasingly presented as an everyday commodity in the market place. In this context, the management of risks associated with sex work has shifted from formalised social control to more informal practices conducted among online communities of clients and sex workers. We discuss the implications for health, legal and welfare responses within an empowerment paradigm.
Masculinity and the Occupational Experience of Male Independent Escorts Who Seek Male Clients
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 05-06-2017
Criminal justice, Indigenous youth and social democracy
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2013
Rural transformations and rural crime: International critical perspectives in rural criminology
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 19-10-2023
The Role of Social Science in Shaping the Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STI) Discourse
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2023
'Without uniform I am a community member, uncle, brother, granddad': Community policing in Australia’s Torres Strait Region
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 15-04-2021
DOI: 10.1177/00048658211005516
Abstract: As a palpable legacy of violent colonialism, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (‘Indigenous’) Australians are the most incarcerated peoples in the world. Community policing, which hinges on the development of trusting community–police partnerships, is frequently proposed as a means of reducing this over-representation, but approaches vary and produce ergent outcomes. This article draws on interview data to explore policing in Australia’s Torres Strait Region – a remote archipelago situated off the northern tip of Queensland. A strong commitment to community and hybridised policing approaches likely provide a partial explanation for relatively low crime in the region. However, under-reporting of some offences (e.g. domestic violence) suggests a possible need to overlay alternative approaches that improve access to justice for all victims, especially women. Overall, the Torres Strait Region experience holds possible lessons for policing in Australia’s other remote Indigenous communities, again demonstrating that decolonisation is a critical starting point for addressing over-representation.
Children's experiences of living with HIV-positive parents within the family context of Bangladesh
Publisher: No publisher found
Date: 2016
Harm reduction and the ethics of drug use: contemporary techniques of self-governance
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 23-05-2017
Criminology, southern theory and cognitive justice
Publisher: No publisher found
Date: 2018
What can Southern Criminology Contribute to a Post-Race Agenda?
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 19-01-2018
Prevalence of vision conditions in children in a very remote Australian community
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 28-11-2023
DOI: 10.1080/08164622.2022.2133597
Abstract: Understanding the prevalence of vision conditions in a population is critical for determining the most appropriate strategies for detecting and correcting eye conditions in a community. This is particularly important in very remote regions where access to vision testing services is limited. Although recent studies have provided detailed analyses of the prevalence of vision conditions in Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander children in urban and regional areas of Australia, there is a paucity of research examining vision conditions in children in remote regions. Importantly, a significant proportion of the population in remote and very remote regions identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people. Comprehensive eye examinations were provided to 193 primary school children in a very remote Australian region. Ninety eight percent of children identified as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander. The eye examination included measures of visual acuity, cycloplegic autorefraction, binocular vision and accommodative function, ocular health and colour vision. Previous history of eye examinations and refractive correction were assessed through parental questionnaire. Although the average unaided vision in the population was good (mean: 0.02 ± 0.13 logMAR) and the prevalence of reduced unaided visual acuity (>0.3 logMAR in either eye) was low (4%), vision conditions were detected in 32% of children. The most common conditions were clinically significant refractive errors (18% of children) and binocular vision or accommodative disorders (16%). Of the total population of children tested, 10% had previously had an eye examination, and 2% were reported to have previously been prescribed spectacles. In this population of children in a very remote Australian region, up to 1 in 3 children had a vision condition, with many of these conditions being uncorrected and undetected. These findings highlight the important need for additional resources to be made available to very remote communities for the detection and correction of vision conditions in childhood.
Charting the place of islands in criminology: On isolation, integration and insularity
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 18-03-2021
Abstract: In this article, we seek to chart the place of islands in criminology with respect to both their place- and space-based attributes. We explore the possibilities of island criminology through the case of Pitcairn Island, which in 2004 formed the backdrop for a series of sensational sexual assault trials. The trials thrust the Island, its people, history and customs into the international spotlight, acting as a counter-narrative to the popular mythology of islands as idyllic paradises. This case study provides us with an opportunity to re-examine how fundamental concepts for understanding crime and regulation, such as social integration, community and belonging, and exclusion are practised in the often closed and bounded networks of island ecologies.
Critical reflections on the operation of Aboriginal night patrols
Publisher: No publisher found
Date: 2018
Social capital and cannabis supply
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-02-2017
Abstract: The distribution of cannabis in Australia is examined with reference to motivations for supplying drugs. We argue that the distribution of cannabis in Australia is best understood with reference to the concept of social supply, where a supplier, not considered to be a ‘drug dealer proper’, brokers, facilitates or sells drugs, for little or no financial gain to friends and acquaintances. The article draws on data from surveys and interviews with 200 young Australian cannabis users, almost all of whom had also supplied cannabis at some point in their lifetime. We further theorise the concept of social supply with reference to social capital. We argue that a sociological understanding of drug distribution should focus on drug communities, as opposed to markets, describing the features of social organisation that exist between people within social networks and related implications that such features might have in terms of social harm and well-being.
E-health: potential benefits and challenges in providing and accessing sexual health services
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 30-08-2013
A prostitute's progress
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-2003
Feeling Black and Blue
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 14-09-2023
Resilience strategies of HIV-positive parents who live with children within the family context in Bangladesh
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 16-08-2019
DOI: 10.1080/09540121.2018.1510104
Abstract: We have limited knowledge about the vulnerabilities faced by HIV-positive parents in families and the strategies they use to manage these circumstances in Bangladesh. A qualitative research design was used to analyse in-depth interviews with 19 HIV-positive parents who lived with their children in Khulna and Dhaka, Bangladesh. The findings indicate that resilience of HIV-positive parents was fostered through interaction with informal and formal social networks. The findings of this study demonstrate that social support groups can play a crucial role to construct new ways of coping and reintegrate HIV people into their families and society.
Working amongst the ‘Dregs of the middle class’
Publisher: SensePublishers
Date: 2015
Process of conducting qualitative research [Commentary]
Publisher: RCN Publishing Ltd.
Date: 21-01-2011
The Organisation of Sex Work in Bangladesh
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 18-05-2022
Quantifying global male sex worker communities in the technology era
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 20-03-2021
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