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University of Technology Sydney
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Top 5 Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Law | Criminal Law and Procedure | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Law | Access to Justice | Causes and Prevention of Crime | Legal Institutions (incl. Courts and Justice Systems) | Criminology | Administrative Law | Law and Society | Private Policing and Security Services |
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Development and Welfare | Law Reform | Criminal Justice | Crime Prevention | Law Enforcement | Public Services Policy Advice and Analysis | Legal Processes | Rehabilitation and Correctional Services
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Publications
Travelling our way or no way!: the collision of automobilities in Australian Northern Territory judicial narratives
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-07-2018
Homelessness and Contact with the Criminal Justice System: Insights from Specialist Lawyers and Allied Professionals in Australia
Publisher: Queensland University of Technology
Date: 12-11-2020
DOI: 10.5204/IJCJSD.1742
Abstract: Lawyers and allied professionals who have experience supporting, advising and representing people experiencing homelessness are uniquely placed to identify problems with the operation of the criminal justice system—from policing to courts to punishment—and to conceive reform options. This article reports the findings of qualitative interviews with lawyers and allied professionals in all Australian states and territories. Participants identified multiple points where decisions about criminal law enforcement fail to take adequate account of the complex factors that underlie ‘offending’ by people experiencing homelessness, producing outcomes that exacerbate disadvantage. They advanced a range of proposals for reform directed at breaking the nexus between homelessness and criminalisation, including re-conception of the role of police, adoption of therapeutic jurisprudence (or ‘solution-focused’) models in criminal courts, and major changes to the use of fines as a criminal punishment.
Popping the cultural bubble of violence risk assessment tools
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 14-07-2017
Neo-Colonial Injustice and the Mass Imprisonment of Indigenous Women
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2020
Hyperincarceration and Indigeneity
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 28-02-2020
DOI: 10.1093/ACREFORE/9780190264079.013.656
Abstract: Indigenous people have been subject to policies that disproportionately incarcerate them since the genesis of colonization of their lands. Incarceration is one node of a field of colonial oppression for Indigenous people. Colonial practices have sought to reduce Indigenous people to “bare life,” to use Agamben’s term, where their humanity is denied the basic rights and expression in the pursuit of sovereign extinguishment. Across the settler colonies of Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand, Canada, and the United States, the colonial drive to conquer land and eliminate Indigenous peoples has left deep scars on Indigenous communities and compromised bonds to kin, culture, and country. Indigenous people have been made refugees in their own countries. Contemporary manifestations of penal incarceration for Indigenous people are a continuation of colonial strategies rather than a distinct phase. The concept of “hyperincarceration” draws attention to the problem of incarceration and its discriminatory targets. It also turns our attention to the turnstile of incarceration in Western postmodernity. However, the prison is but one form of exclusion for Indigenous people in a constellation of eliminatory and assimilatory practices, policies, and regimes imposed by colonial governance. Rather than overemphasizing the prison, there needs to be a broader conceptualization of colonial governance through “the c ,” again in the words of Agamben. The colonial institutionalization of Indigenous people, including in out-of-home care, psychiatric care, and corrective programs, is akin to a c where Indigenous people are relegated to the margins of society. We eschew a narrow notion of hyperincarceration and instead posit a structural analysis of colonial relations underpinning the c .
Sentencing Indigenous Riot Offenders in a Spatial Fantasy
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2011
States of prison abolition: COVID-19 and anti-colonial and anti-racist organising
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Date: 05-2022
DOI: 10.1332/OGMV7926
Abstract: Until recently, carceral and penal logics have proliferated the global scene unabated. The coronavirus pandemic not only ushered a moment of pause for the world, but in some areas, even a reversal in carceral trends. In many countries, some sectors experienced unprecedented reductions in imprisonment and migrant detention. Even where the pandemic advanced more invasive carceral controls, such as with policing through health checks and issuing tickets, it also fuelled global resistance through the Black Lives Matter movement. In the wake of the pandemic, an uprising of activists, advocates and supporters captured the public imagination with anti-racist and abolition uprisings and advances in community care. In the lands now known as Australia and Canada, where the criminalisation and incarceration of Indigenous people has been increasing, this mobilising has resulted in important alliances and advancements to challenge these carceral and penal trajectories. In this article, we trace several abolitionist initiatives to show how the convergence of COVID-19 and anti-racist and anti-colonial movements catalysed an important moment for abolitionist organising.
Sentencing Indigenous Offenders in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 09-2016
DOI: 10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780199935383.013.39
Abstract: In common law countries that have been colonized, the colonized peoples are overrepresented in criminal justice statistics and in rates of incarceration. Sentencing laws and court processes have, for some time, undergone changes to reduce or address the continuing rise of indigenous over-incarceration. This essay focuses on three colonized common law countries: Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, in examining what legal strategies have been used to transform judicial reasoning and practice to take into account the particular experiences and circumstances of indigenous offenders. Whether these changes have improved the situation in practice is explored in this essay. The essay concludes by examining what role and responsibilities judicial officers should have in administering justice for peoples who have been, and continue to be, dispossessed of their culture, laws, and language by the process of colonization, and suggests directions for future research.
Indigenous courthouse and courtroom design in Australia
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 27-08-2021
Indigenous Courthouse and Courtroom Design in Australia
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 2018
Rise Up: Activist Criminology, Colonial Injustice and Abolition
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Date: 09-08-2023
Introduction to the Griffith Law Review Commission of Inquiry special issue
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2020
Courthouse design principles to dignify spaces for indigenous users: Preliminary observations
Publisher: International Association for Court Administration
Date: 11-2016
DOI: 10.18352/IJCA.217
“We’re Not Being Treated Like Mothers”: Listening to the Stories of First Nations Mothers in Prison
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 13-09-2021
DOI: 10.3390/LAWS10030074
Abstract: This article is based on research with over 160 First Nations women in prisons in New South Wales, Australia. The research identified the lived experience of prison sentences for First Nations women in prison. Our research methodology was guided by an Aboriginal women’s advisory body called sista2sista. It was based on the principles of Dadirri in which we listened to the stories of First Nations women in prison on their terms. Consequently, many stories we heard were not about the criminal sentencing process itself, but about the impacts of imprisonment on their capacity to be caregivers in the community, including as mothers, grandmothers, aunts, sisters, teachers and role models. The findings from this research are dual. First, the importance of listening to and empowering First Nations women in prison in policy making that concerns First Nations women. Second, the need to decarcerate First Nations mothers and listen and respond to their needs, expectations, priorities and aspirations, to ensure they are supported in fulfilling their role and responsibility to care, nurture, strengthen and lead their families and communities.
Settler-Colonial Governmentality: The Carceral Webs Woven by Law and Politics
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 31-08-2019
Human Rights and Incarceration
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2018
Pandemic policy, First Nations, and the power of self-determination
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 03-08-2022
30 years on: Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody recommendations remain unimplemented
Publisher: Canberra, ACT : Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR), The Australian National University
Date: 2021
DOI: 10.25911/22AJ-0608
Introduction to special edition:
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2021
Culture, Strengths, and Risk: The Language of Pre-Sentence Reports in Indigenous Sentencing Courts and Mainstream Courts
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 21-10-2023
DOI: 10.1177/00938548221131952
Abstract: Pre-sentence reports (PSRs) provide important information about an in idual’s background and circumstances to assist judicial officers in the sentencing process. The present study analyzed PSRs for 63 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people sentenced by either an Indigenous sentencing court or a mainstream court in the Australian State of Victoria. Using natural language processing techniques, our analyses revealed few differences between PSRs conducted for each court. However, PSRs were found to predominantly feature key words that are risk-based, with mainstream court PSRs more negatively worded than the Indigenous sentencing court’s PSRs. This may have been due to the inclusion of results from a risk and need assessment tool. Pro-social factors did comprise more than one third of extracted keywords, although the number of strength-based culture-related keywords, in particular, was low across PSRs in both courts. It is possible that courts may not be receiving all the information needed to promote in idualized justice.
Pre-sentence reports for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people: an analysis of language and sentiment
Publisher: Australian Institute of Criminology
Date: 30-11-2022
DOI: 10.52922/TI78795
Abstract: Pre-sentence reports (PSRs) provide information to courts on an in idual’s background, circumstances, risks, needs and plans. Research has found that PSRs focus heavily on risk of reci ism, while identification of prosocial cultural and community factors is limited. This study sought to describe the language and sentiment in these reports. We studied PSRs written for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people sentenced by the mainstream County Court of Victoria and the Koori Court Division of the County Court of Victoria. Findings indicate that risk-related words are more prevalent than words associated with strengths and culture in PSRs submitted to both courts. While the frequency of positive and negative sentiment was low in PSRs for both courts, those for the Koori Court were more positive in sentiment.
Taking a lens to the chase in Australian settler state colonialism
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 04-2020
Joint response to the Deloitte Review of the implementation of the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
Publisher: Canberra, ACT : Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR), The Australian National University
Date: 2018
Le cadre juridique régissant la responsabilité pénale de l’aliéné mental au Maroc
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2014
Indigenous People, Crime and Punishment
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 24-07-2013
Decolonizing criminology theories by centring First Nations praxis and knowledges
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 22-06-2023
Marx and Anti-Colonialism 1
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 22-03-2021
Reconciliation and Conciliation: The Irreconcilable Dilemma of the 1965 'Equal' Wage Case for Aboriginal Station Workers
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Date: 2007
DOI: 10.2307/27516225
“They Were Treating Me Like a Dog”: The Colonial Continuum of State Harms Against Indigenous Children in Detention in the Northern Territory, Australia
Publisher: Pluto Journals
Date: 2018
DOI: 10.13169/STATECRIME.7.2.0251
Abstract: The analytic lens of state crime can inform our understanding of the mistreatment of Indigenous children and young people in settler-colonial state institutions. Based on a critical analysis of the proceedings and findings of the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory (2016–2017), this article identifies state crimes of torture and abuse inflicted on Indigenous children in carceral and non-carceral institutions. These crimes breach international human rights laws but are more than a set of in idual harms. They are also part of a pattern of ongoing structural violence that reasserts the settler-colonial state's sovereign position. This article identifies that the Royal Commission itself is complicit in reproducing state sovereignty. It argues that redressing state crimes against Indigenous children requires challenging the structural injustice of the settler-colonial state.
Indigenous Experience Reports: Addressing Silence and Deficit Discourse in Sentencing
Publisher: University of New South Wales Law Journal
Date: 07-2023
DOI: 10.53637/KJAT3372
Anti-Colonial Abolitionism: International Context
Publisher: University of Ottawa Library
Date: 03-04-2022
Car Crimes and the Cultural Imagination
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 22-11-2016
DOI: 10.1093/ACREFORE/9780190264079.013.21
Abstract: The car and crime become entrenched in the cultural imagination with the widely circulated images of the bullet-hole-ravaged Ford V8 that Bonnie (Parker) and Clyde (Barrow) were in when they were killed by Texan and Louisianan police in 1934. This couple of outlaws (and their gang) had kept newspaper readers enthralled and appalled as they robbed, murdered, and kidnapped throughout the Midwest since 1932. The scope of their activities and their success in evading authorities, along with their crimes, which included many vehicle thefts, were facilitated by the mobility of the car. Before Bonnie and Clyde, car crime in the public consciousness comprised images of the foolish and antisocial behavior of the well-to-do car-owning elite. After Bonnie and Clyde, the famous image of their death car and the celebrity-making image of Bonnie as the archetypical gangster moll with cigar and revolver leaning over a stolen car, linked in the cultural imagination crime and cars as everyday through a visceral mix of bodies, sex, and violence. In particular, the visceral imaginings of car crime after Bonnie and Clyde separated into four locations. All involved, to certain degree, bodies, sex, and violence, but distinct contexts and meanings can be identified. The first location is the imaging of car crime itself of risky use of the car —speeding, dangerous driving, racing, drink driving—actions evidenced by carnage on the roads. There have emerged two frames for this location. The first is the serious and deadly context of the usually male driver fueled by “combustion masculinity” taking irresponsible risks with bloody consequences. The second is the humorous, over-the-top risky, subversive, and illegal car-based activities, a frame tapped into by television shows like Top Gear (Klein, 2002–2015) and Bush Mechanics (Batty, 2001) and manifest in the car chase trope. The second location is the car as a crime scene . From JFK’s assassination in a Lincoln convertible, to the car as site of sexual assault, to the illicit imaginings of the goings-on in a VW microbus, the car is a place in which crimes happen. The car is seen as constructing an internal geography in which crimes occur. The third location has the car as a facilitator of criminal activity . In the road buddy narrative from On the Road (Kerouac, 1957) to Thelma & Louise (Scott, 1991) the car becomes the outlaw’s mechanical horse facilitating a crime spree and evading arrest. At the fourth location, the car became imaged as property, the car as a crime object . From Gone in 60 Seconds (Sena, 2000) to the advertisements of the vehicle insurance industry, the car became conceived as vulnerable property, the target of theft. While distinguishable, each location is not segmented in the cultural imagination, but, as role-played by gamers in the Grand Theft Auto computer game series, cross and coexist. Now well into its second century, the car, notwithstanding contemporary transformations, nurtures a vivid imagining of its culture gone wrong.
The perils of positivism in the NT Royal Commission into youth detention: the case for a post-positivist frame for First Nations justice
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2020
Who are the Experts Here?: Recognition of Aboriginal women and community workers in research and beyond
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 06-2015
DOI: 10.1177/117718011501100207
Abstract: This paper explores how Indigenous-centred methodologies are crucial to the design and conduct of research projects that seek to have meaningful outcomes for Indigenous women and communities. We draw on experiential observations of an advisory group led by Indigenous experts that was part of the Social and Cultural Resilience and Emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal Mothers in prison (SCREAM) research project. From their experience we identify lessons for how Indigenous expertise can be utilized to promote mutually respectful relationships among Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers, organizations and agencies. We found that the formation of an Indigenous-led advisory group from a project's inception is a powerful vehicle for informing its purposes, method and dissemination of findings back to Indigenous participants and communities. Our approach has produced a set of data on Indigenous women prisoners that prioritizes, rather than pathologizes, Indigenous standpoints, and recognizes the complex effects of colonization for these women. This paper seeks to convey the research process to inform future research that engages Indigenous participants.
Biopower of Colonialism in Carceral Contexts
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 29-01-2021
STOP in the Name of Who's Law? Driving and the Regulation of Contested Space in Central Australia
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-2018
Abstract: This article emerges from a study of the incidence of Indigenous driving offending conducted by the authors in the Northern Territory (NT) from 2006 to 2010 on two central Australian communities. It demonstrates how new patterns of law enforcement, set in train by an ‘Emergency Intervention’ in 2007, ostensibly to tackle child sexual abuse and family violence, led to a dramatic increase in the criminalisation of Indigenous people for driving-related offending. We suggest that the criminalisation of driving-related offending was part of a neocolonial turn in the NT through which the state sought to discipline, normalise and incorporate as yet uncolonised, or unevenly colonised, dimensions of Indigenous domain into the Australian mainstream. In terms of methodology, we adopted a mix of quantitative and qualitative approaches, blending criminal justice and policing data with insights from criminological, anthropological and postcolonial theory. We argue that running together the insights from different disciplinary traditions is necessary to tease out the nuances, ambiguities and complexities of crime control strategies, and their impact, in postcolonial contexts.
Quantum of strategic litigation — quashing public participation
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-2009
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