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Fining and jailing Indonesian fishers taking shark fin is a knee-jerk solution. As long as sharks keep vanishing and demand for shark fin soup remains high, illegal fishing will continue.
ACT Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Shane Drumgold today announced that the charges against Bruce Lehrmann, the man accused of raping Brittany Higgins at Parliament House in 2019, have been withdrawn…
In New Zealand, you can be considered capable of criminal intent from the age of ten. But this is young by international standards, and many believe reform is overdue.
After recent findings that Aboriginal women detainees are strip searched at higher rates than non-Indigenous women, it’s clear that Australia needs to address racial discrimination in justice systems.
Many states have found ways to remove partisan politics from their court systems.
Video evidence can be powerful at a trial – but it does not always lead to a fair rendering of justice.
Young people often swallow any drugs they have on them when they encounter police, risking overdose to avoid a drug possession charge.
The court prosecutes genocide, torture and grave wartime abuses worldwide. Trump’s executive order imposes on its lawyers and judges the kind of sanctions usually used on foreign terrorists.
Coronavirus infections in prisons are a public health problem for everyone, not just prisoners and sfaff.
The law is on the judge’s side when it comes to fears the Christchurch killer will use his sentencing hearing to grandstand.
Recent changes to the Japanese justice system have tried to make it more transparent and equitable.
The fallout from the Huffman case has been intense, with much anger centered on the light punishment meted out to a white A-list celebrity versus the excessive charges levelled at Black defendants.
A new book scrutinises the social and psychological causes of domestic abuse, its terrifying consequences, particularly the impact on children, and the failure of our legal and social institutions to adequately respond.
Many psychologists claim memory is unreliable.
Facial expressions and gestures can impact the outcome of a trial that depends on the credibility of witnesses.
Indigenous Australians are vastly over-represented in the prison population, but the success of a new program is offering hope that it can be turned around.
The only quitting tool most Australian prisoners have access to is nicotine lozenges. These are being mixed with tea leaves to create a smokable product known as “teabacco”.
Nigeria is failing to prosecute banking executives charged with fraud due to deep weaknesses in the system.
South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa needs to display that wrongdoers of the Jacob Zuma era are going to be held accountable through prosecution.
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney
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Professor of Health Equity, Curtin University
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Senior Lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Professor of Criminology, Australian National University
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Professor, UNSW Law School, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Paediatrics & Child Health and Director of the Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit, University of Sydney
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Researcher, University of Technology Sydney
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Arie Freiberg is a Friend of The Conversation.
Emeritus Professor of Law, Monash University
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Research Fellow, Designing Out Crime Research Centre, University of Technology Sydney
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Emeritus Professor of Law and Criminal Justice, University of South Australia
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Professor of Criminology, University of Leeds
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Professor and Program Head, Justice Health Research Program, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor in Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Professor of Criminology, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor, TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland
