It is claimed ‘tough on crime’ policies reflect public opinion, but a properly informed public, via models such as citizens’ juries, is likely to arrive at different views on prison and its alternatives.
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Women coming out of jail require forms of assistance that are not simply directed at technologies for prevention or elimination of recidivism, but rather that are focused on health and well-being.
The creation of veterans’ courts could be part of a fundamental shift to a criminal justice system that genuinely tackles the causes of crime.
Approaches to crime that rely on punitive methods have proved to be ineffective and counter-productive. Rehabilitation programmes not only prevent crime, but are cost-effective and practical.
A new generation of Indigenous youth is being separated from their families and culture – this time by the force of criminal law that ignores the proven alternative of community-based justice.
Sentencing policy is a mixed bag of approaches: punishment, deterrence, protection and rehabilitation. The system will remain costly and ineffective until punitive instincts give way to a more rational approach.
Northern Territory police powers to make ‘paperless arrests’ are completely contrary to recommendations by the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, and now the inevitable has happened.
Top contributors
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Professor, Urban Housing and Homelessness, RMIT University
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Emeritus Professor, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Criminal Law, University of Sydney
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Professor of Law, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Law, Swinburne University of Technology
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Emeritus Professor of Law and Criminal Justice, University of South Australia
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Ronald Henderson Research Fellow Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research & Brotherhood of St Laurence, The University of Melbourne
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Professor and Program Head, Justice Health Research Program, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Criminology, University of Technology Sydney
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ARC Future Fellow and Professor of Criminology, Monash University
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Health Services Researcher, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Fellow (Indigenous Programs), The University of Melbourne
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Research Fellow, School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney
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Academic Director/ Clinical Ethicist, Children’s Bioethics Centre at the Royal Children’s Hospital, and Associate Professor in Health Ethics at the Centre for Health and Society, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Monash University
