In countries where people access different justice providers, a hybrid model could pull them together and ensure better oversight and human rights.
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There are many conversations these days around ‘successful dying.’ Two African American scholars argue why these conversations need to include race and how it impacts life span.
Evidence shows restorative justice can help fix environmental crime – so why isn’t Australia using it more?
A failure to introduce robust science means forensic science has reached crisis point. The UK has to act now to address this threat to justice.
Facial expressions and gestures can impact the outcome of a trial that depends on the credibility of witnesses.
The royal commission will give people with disabilities an opportunity to share their experiences. But it needs to ensure they’re supported and have the same access to services as others do.
Police have to analyse over 31m documents, 2,500 pieces of evidence and 2,332 witness statements. This makes Grenfell the biggest and most complex corporate manslaughter case ever brought.
Unconscious biases can trigger aggressive behaviour and lead to miscarriages of justice.
The recent acquittals should be seen as a vindication of the ICC as an independent and impartial judicial institution.
Forensic linguistics can play a valuable role in interpreting evidence.
Some Indonesian law enforcers are simply not aware of Constitutional Court decisions. But some are blatantly ignoring them.
The initial aim of the 1937 Foreign Agents Registration Act was long forgotten: the prosecution of Nazis for interfering with American democracy. But that law is startlingly relevant to the US now.
Cyntoia Brown has been granted clemency for killing a man when she was a teenager and forced into the sex trade. The case showed why the justice system must stop punishing women for defending themselves.
Self-examination DNA collection techniques can help women bring the perpetrators of sexual violence to justice.
Chinese researcher, Jainkui He claims to have created the world’s first genome-edited twins. Such action would pose unknown risks to the lives of these children and to humanity as a whole.
Restorative justice allows us to uphold justice while respecting the human rights of offenders.
Poor supervision, poor training, and unfair treatment of lower-ranked officers make misconduct more likely to happen among Ghana’s police force.
New research found a disparity between the sentences women and men are given for offence when alcohol is an aggravating factor.
The old ways of doing things still matter – it’s just that some of it now takes place online.
Calls to impose harsh prison sentences for verbal crimen injuria are often premised on the need to deter such behaviour.
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Adjunct Associate Professor, University of New England
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Lecturer in Law, University of Adelaide
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Professor, UNSW Law School, UNSW Sydney
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Arie Freiberg is a Friend of The Conversation.
Emeritus Professor of Law, Monash University
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Professor of Criminology, Australian National University
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Associate Professor in Criminal Justice and Criminology, Bond University
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Professor of Law, University of Technology Sydney
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