Extending Punishment

Dr Gerald ONSANDO1, Mr Mamadou DIAMANKA2 1Research Fellow; School of Social and Political Sciences; The University of Melbourne 2Founder and Managing Director; Australian African Foundation for Retention and Opportunity (AAFRO)   The number of African-born prisoners in the state of...
  • November 20, 2018
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Peter Norden1 1Deakin University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia This paper highlights some of the issues contained in the presentation made at the Inaugural Tony Vinson Memorial Lecture at UNSW in September of this year. This presentation also responds to the call...
  • October 3, 2018
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Kate Gooch1 1University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom, In February 2017 HMP Berwyn became the first prison to open with the aim of becoming a ‘rehabilitation prison’. Situated in North Wales, it is the largest prison in the UK, with...
  • September 27, 2018
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Mr Kavan Applegate1 1University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom, The pursuit of rehabilitation in a corrections environment poses numerous challenges and, for the architect, many competing requirements must be balanced as the design of a prison goes from a blank...
  • September 27, 2018
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Prof. Yvonne Jewkes1,2 1University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom,  2University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia Discourses of transformation, normalisation, trauma sensitivity and rehabilitation have recently come to the fore in the briefs given to prison architects. Drawing on recent collaborations with...
  • September 27, 2018
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Ms. Krystal Lockwood1 ,Susan Dennison, Anna Stewart, Lisa Broidy, Troy Allard and Nick Tilley 1Griffith University, Mt Gravatt, Australia, With the rise of the overuse of incarceration, collateral consequences of incarceration are infiltrating Australia. For First Nations families this is...
  • September 27, 2018
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Dr Kirsten Besemer1,Lacey Schaefer & Susan Dennison 1Griffith University, Mt Gravatt, Australia, Regular family visitation is often associated with improved outcomes for offenders. However, due to Australia’s vast geography, prisoners and their families may be hundreds of kilometres apart. Qualitative...
  • September 27, 2018
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Ms. Holly Smallbone1,3  Susan Dennison, Stefano Occhipinti and Catrien Bijleveld 1Griffith University, Mt Gravatt, Australia, 3Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement, Faculty of Law, VU University , Amsterdam, Netherlands A recent body of research on parental imprisonment has...
  • September 27, 2018
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Ms. Rebecca Wallis1,2 Susan Dennison, Lisa Broidy 1Griffith University, Mt Gravatt, Australia,2TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia This presentation draws on in-depth interviews with 60 mothers imprisoned in Queensland. It explores how mothers’ experiences of imprisonment are...
  • September 27, 2018
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Dr Sandy Sacre1,Ms Mel Conway1, 1Queensland Corrective Services, Brisbane, Australia From January 2012 until mid-August, 2018, Brisbane Women’s Correction Centre (BWCC) accommodated significantly more prisoners than its single cell capacity. While overcrowding in Queensland’s male and female secure correctional facilities...
  • September 26, 2018
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