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The New South Wales Law Reports
In three series: 1. Cases at law -- 2. Cases in equity -- 3. Matrimonial cases.
Prisoners' Rights
This book considers prisoners' rights from socio-legal and philosophical perspectives, assessing the advantages and problems of a rights-based approach to imprisonment with a focus on citizenship, the treatment of women prisoners, and social exclusion.
Votes & Proceedings
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Prisoners as Citizens
Gives voice to a diverse range of viewpoints on the debate on prisoners' rights, with contributions from prisoners, human rights activists, academics, criminal justice policy makers and practitioners.
Regional Report of Inquiry in New South Wales, Victoria, and Tasmania
Commissions investigations and jurisdictional issues; causes and prevention of death; Aboriginal prisoners; bail , probation and parole; criminal investigation procedures; contact history and government policy; racism; Aboriginal /police relations; domestic violence; juveniles; employment, education and health policy; treatment of alcohol and drug abuse; land rights and self-determination.
Keeping Hold of Justice
Keeping Hold of Justice focuses on a select range of encounters between law and colonialism from the early nineteenth century to the present. It emphasizes the nature of colonialism as a distinctively structural injustice, one which becomes entrenched in the social, political, legal, and discursive structures of societies and thereby continues to affect people’s lives in the present. It charts, in particular, the role of law in both enabling and sustaining colonial injustice and in recognizing and redressing it. In so doing, the book seeks to demonstrate the possibilities for structural justice that still exist despite the enduring legacies and harms of colonialism. It puts forward that these possibilities can be found through collaborative methodologies and practices, such as those informing this book, that actively bring together different disciplines, peoples, temporalities, laws and ways of knowing. They reveal law not only as a source of colonial harm but also as a potential means of keeping hold of justice.
Penal Culture and Hyperincarceration
What are the various forces influencing the role of the prison in late modern societies? What changes have there been in penality and use of the prison over the past 40 years that have led to the re-valorization of the prison? Using penal culture as a conceptual and theoretical vehicle, and Australia as a case study, this book analyses international developments in penality and imprisonment. Authored by some of Australia’s leading penal theorists, the book examines the historical and contemporary influences on the use of the prison, with analyses of colonialism, post colonialism, race, and what they term the ’penal/colonial complex,’ in the construction of imprisonment rates and on the...
