Courts and Sentencing

Laura Wajnryb McDonald1, David Tait1, Rick Sarre2 1 Western Sydney University 2 University of South Australia Just as it is changing almost every aspect of social life, digital technology is transforming justice processes too. Indeed, the move towards ‘virtual’ justice means that courts of...

A. McQuinn*, G. Hall, Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia  *corresponding author: ashlee.mcquinn@gmail.com   Parole board decision-making has a low-profile in Australian scholarship and this analysis of the release of life sentence prisoners in Western Australia is one of the first...

Dat T. Bui*, PhD candidate at Law School, Macquarie University; Lecturer at Law School, Vietnam National University Hanoi  *corresponding author’s email: buitiendat2001@yahoo.com   By affirming the right to be presumed innocent and the right to remain silent, the Vietnamese Criminal Proceedings...

Rick Sarre University of South Australia Corresponding author: rick.sarre@unisa.edu.au   In 2015 in a Sydney, New South Wales court, an offender turned violent, knocking out a prosecutor and having to be restrained by seven police officers. It took five minutes...

Rick Sarre, University of South Australia This paper reflects upon the role of the gun in public life generally. It reviews the gun in public hands, in the hands of private security and in the standard issue of police. It begins...