Community Justice In Australia

Author : Brian Stout
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000833171

Get Book

Community Justice in Australia by Brian Stout Pdf

This new edition of Community Justice in Australia expands on the discussion of how people who have committed offences can be engaged in the community. It considers how the concept of community justice can be successfully applied within Australia by social workers, criminologists, parole officers and anyone working in the community with both adults and young people. The book defines community justice and applies the concept to the Australian context. It then explains theories of offending behaviour, considers relevant Australian legislation, policy and intervention strategies and examines the implications for both young people and adults. Restorative justice is also discussed. The latter part of the book focuses on practical issues including working in community justice organisations, technology, public protection and desistance approaches. Each chapter contains an engagement with the implications of community justice approaches for Indigenous groups and features reflective questions, practical tasks and guidance for further reading. This accessible and practical book will be indispensable for instructors, students and practitioners working in the community with people who have committed offences.

Author : Gordon Bazemore,Mara Schiff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317521716

Get Book

Restorative Community Justice by Gordon Bazemore,Mara Schiff Pdf

An anthology of original essays, this book presents debates over practice, theory, and implementation of restorative justice. Attention is focused on the movement’s direction toward a more holistic, community-oriented approach to criminal justice intervention.

Author : Sarah Murray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Community organization
ISBN : 1032137207

Get Book

Community Justice Centres by Sarah Murray Pdf

This book examines the phenomenon of Community Justice Centres and their potential to transform the justice landscape by tackling the underlying causes of crime. Marred by recidivism, addiction, family violence, overflowing courtrooms, crippling prison spending and extreme rates of incarceration, the criminal justice system is in crisis. Community Justice Centres seek to combat this by tackling the underlying causes of crime in a particular neighbourhood and working with local people to redesign the experience of justice and enhance the notion of community. A Community Justice Centre houses a court which works with an interdisciplinary team to address the causes of criminality such as drug addiction, cognitive impairment, mental illness, poverty, abuse and intergenerational trauma. The community thus becomes a key agent of change, partnering with the Centre to tackle local issues and improve safety and community cohesion. This book, based on research into this innovative justice model, examines case studies from around the world, the challenges presented by the model and the potential for bringing its learnings into the mainstream. This book will appeal to academics in law and criminology as well as psychology; it will also be of considerable interest to people working in the criminal justice system, including the police, government policy advisers, psychologists and social workers.

Author : Kathleen Daly,Hennessey Hayes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Juvenile justice, Administration of
ISBN : 0642242070

Get Book

Restorative Justice and Conferencing in Australia by Kathleen Daly,Hennessey Hayes Pdf

This paper outlines recent Australian developments in restorative justice and conferencing. Restorative justice encompasses a variety of practices at different stages of the criminal process, including diversion from court prosecution, actions taken in parallel with court decisions, and meetings between victims and offenders at any stage of the criminal process. Apart from the Australian Capital Territory and Victoria, all Australian jurisdictions have introduced legislation incorporating conferencing in their responses to youth crime. All but one of the statutory-based schemes favour non-police-run conference models. Australia and New Zealand are world leaders in the use of conferencing as a form of restorative justice. When used as a diversion from court prosecution, conferences involve a young person who has admitted to the offence, his or her supporters, the victim, his or her supporters, a police officer and a conference convenor coming together to discuss the offence and its impact. The conference then moves to a discussion of the outcome that the young offender is expected to complete. The sanctions or reparations may include an apology, paying some form of monetary compensation, undertaking work for the victim or the community and attending counselling sessions, among others. The outcome is legally binding. Research from around Australia is reported in this paper.

Author : New South Wales. Law Reform Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Dispute resolution (Law)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063706738

Get Book

Community Justice Centres by New South Wales. Law Reform Commission Pdf

Author : Peter Norden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-26
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
ISBN : 0646844261

Get Book

Seeking Justice in the Criminal Justice System in Australia by Peter Norden Pdf

For more than 40 years, Professor Peter Norden has worked in a variety of roles within the Australian criminal justice system. These include his years as Catholic Chaplain to the Victorian Prison system including Pentridge Prison (1985-1992) and as Convenor of the Victorian Criminal Justice Coalition (1992-2008). 'Seeking Justice' reflects on this rich and diverse journey, providing reflections on decades of front-line work and advocacy. As one of the six reviewers of the book, Melbourne Barrister, Julian McMahon AC QC, renowned death row defence Counsel for Australians awaiting execution in our Asian region notes: 'Peter Norden has drawn a remarkable portrait of an era: of jails, executions, police killings, prisoners lost in their cells, brutality, survival and hope'.'Seeking Justice' is an extensive volume of 450 pages, and covers such historic personalities as Bill O'Meally, the last man flogged by the State in Australia, and Ronald Ryan, the last man hanged by the State in Australia. Norden describes the crisis surrounding the infamous death of the Jika Jika Five in a protest fire within Pentridge in 1987, and details hitherto unreported from the Walsh Street murder trial following the execution killing of the two young Police Officers in Walsh Street, South Yarra in 1988. But Seeking Justice does much more: it points to an alternative model of restorative justice that could be implemented to secure a more secure and safer society in Australia in coming decades. Such a model would address the current international scandal of the mass incarceration of Indigenous Australians. It would set a new direction for the Australian criminal justice system founded on evidence, and not on a misguided model based on our past as a penal settlement. Peter Norden is well placed to call for our political leaders to explore new paths in pursuit of true justice and greater community safety in Australia today.

Author : Peter Sallmann,John Willis
Publisher : Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
ISBN : STANFORD:36105043830459

Get Book

Criminal Justice in Australia by Peter Sallmann,John Willis Pdf

Author : Duncan Chappell,Paul R. Wilson
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Crime
ISBN : UCAL:B4918667

Get Book

The Australian Criminal Justice System by Duncan Chappell,Paul R. Wilson Pdf

Crime and criminal justice; discrimination against minorities; police; sentencing; etc.; articles by M.W. Daunton-Fear and A. Freiberg and F.G. Cohen, D. Chappell and P.R. Wilson separately annotated.

Author : Harry Blagg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063267137

Get Book

A New Way of Doing Justice Business? by Harry Blagg Pdf

Author : Mark Findlay,Stephen Odgers
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105134499404

Get Book

Australian Criminal Justice by Mark Findlay,Stephen Odgers Pdf

Provides a complete overview of the criminal justice process. It analyses the influences that shape criminal justice and examines the institutional and administrative features of its operation in all jurisdictions. Findlay, University of Sydney, Australia.

Author : Russell Marks
Publisher : Black Inc.
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781925203035

Get Book

Crime and Punishment by Russell Marks Pdf

If the goal of our justice system is to reduce crime and create a safer society, then we must do better. According to conventional wisdom, severely punishing offenders reduces the likelihood that they’ll offend again. Why, then, do so many who go to prison continue to commit crimes after their release? What do we actually know about offenders and the reasons they break the law? In Crime & Punishment, Russell Marks argues that the lives of most criminal offenders – and indeed of many victims of crime – are marked by often staggering disadvantage. For many offenders, prison only increases their chances of committing further crimes. And despite what some media outlets and politicians want us to believe, harsher sentences do not help most victims to heal. Drawing on his experience as a lawyer, Marks eloquently makes the case for restorative justice and community correction, whereby offenders are obliged to engage with victims and make amends. Crime & Punishment is a provocative call for change to a justice system in desperate need of renewal.

Author : Declan Roche
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351150101

Get Book

Restorative Justice by Declan Roche Pdf

The legitimacy and performance of the traditional criminal justice system is the subject of intense scrutiny as the world economic crisis continues to put pressure on governments to cut the costs of the criminal justice system. This volume brings together the leading work on restorative justice to achieve two objectives: to construct a comprehensive and up-to-date conceptual framework for restorative justice suitable even for newcomers; and to challenge the barriers of restorative justice in the hope of taking its theory and practice a step further. The selected articles start by answering some fundamental questions about restorative justice regarding its historical and philosophical origins, and challenge the concept by bringing into the debate the human rights and equality discourses. Also included is material based on empirical testing of restorative justice claims especially those impacting on reoffending rates, victim satisfaction and reintegration. The volume concludes with a critique of restorative justice as well as with analytical thinking that aims to push its barriers. It is hoped that the investigations offered by this volume not only offer hope for a better system for abolitionists and reformists, but also new and convincing evidence to persuade the sceptics in the debate over restorative justice.

Author : Chris Cunneen,Robert Douglas White
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : IND:30000087891333

Get Book

Juvenile Justice by Chris Cunneen,Robert Douglas White Pdf

Building on the strengths of earlier editions, Juvenile Justice: Youth and Crime in Australia continues to provide a clear and comprehensive introduction to juvenile justice. Helps australian students explore key issues. The text presents the main concepts and topics of juvenile justice in a way that is simple and descriptive, yet critical. New chapter highlights help students to recognise the key issues. Highlights of this edition: Increased discussion of media representations of youth and youth crime. Coverage of detention and community corrections, crime prevention and restorative justice, which reflects a positive shift towards considering the basic rights and wellbeing of young people. Book jacket.

Author : Derek Dalton,Willem De Lint,Darren Palmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 741 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
ISBN : 0455238642

Get Book

Crime and Justice by Derek Dalton,Willem De Lint,Darren Palmer Pdf

Crime and Justice: a Guide to Criminology has been for many years a leading Australian textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate students approaching this subject for the first time. The contributors are well known research active academics in Australia who contribute to the criminological debate at national and international level. Fully revised and updated, this 5th edition offers a comprehensive guide in criminal justice and criminology that is well suited to a dual-semester approach. It covers a wide range of topics including: different forms of crimes .. from street crime to state crime and international crimes; who commits crimes and who are the victims of crimes; and how society responds to crime. This book offers a balance between critical and administrative criminological traditions to add to the discourse of crime and justice in the twenty-first century.

Author : Donald James Weatherburn
Publisher : Federation Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Law
ISBN : 1862875324

Get Book

Law and Order in Australia by Donald James Weatherburn Pdf

How much crime is committed in Australia? What sort of crime, where and by whom? What can we do to stop it? This book deals in facts and dispels myths. Don Weatherburn, Director of the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, shows how policies are driven by the political need to manage public reactions, not to control and prevent crime. Law and Order in Australia informs public debate about crime in Australia by contrasting popular assumptions about crime and crime control with what is actually known to be true. The opening chapter sets the scene by asking how serious Australia's crime problems are. Weatherburn then offers a critique of the way Australian governments attempt to deal with Australia's crime problems. This is followed by the foundations for a discussion of what actually works in crime prevention and control by highlighting some basic facts about crime and offenders. The final chapters discuss what the evidence reveals about crime prevention and control and the key issues in crime prevention and control in Australia. Weatherburn clearly provides numerous ideas for better policies, ones that will actually work.