Panel Session

Marie Segrave1 1Monash University This paper will draw on recent research focused on irregular migrant labourers experiences in Australia. It will consider the limited recognition of the exploitation experienced by those without work rights. It will explore the contemporary policy...
  • October 3, 2018
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Laura Vidal1 1Good Shepard Australia This paper will draw on recent findings from a Churchill Fellowship, reviewing international responses to Forced Marriage. It will consider the shifting responses in Australia including the inclusion of forced marriage in the Commonwealth Slavery...
  • October 3, 2018
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Heather Moore1 1Salvation Army Freedom Partnership This paper will focus specifically on the development of the MSA and the limits of the proposed legislation. The paper will background the civil society push for a range of inclusions that were ultimately...
  • October 3, 2018
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Professor Rosie Meek3 3Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, United Kingdom There is a strong history of voluntary sector involvement in British prisons, spanning involvement in a wide range of services, including prisoner education, healthcare, housing support and through-the-gate provision....
  • October 3, 2018
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Dr Alice  Mills2 2University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in New Zealand have an enduring history of providing services for people leaving prison, and are the current providers of most post-release services. Since the ‘contract crunch’ (McCarthy...
  • October 3, 2018
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Dr Natalie Thomas1 1University Of New England, Armidale, Australia Civil society participation in drug policy processes is an important part of international and domestic drug policy systems. Non-government and civil society organisations act as key service providers and policy actors...
  • October 3, 2018
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Dr  Mary Corcoran4 4Keele University, Keele, United Kingdom The profile of the voluntary/charitable sector’s work in criminal justice has become sharply magnified in recent years as ‘Anglophone’ capitalist countries turn towards mixed-market models in public services.  Austerity, welfare state shrinkage,...
  • October 3, 2018
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Dr Sancia West5 5University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia Online learning has revolutionised the way in which higher education can be delivered and maximised the opportunities for involvement by student cohorts previously unlikely or unable to engage in higher education. Current...
  • October 3, 2018
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Ms Melissa Jardine4 4Global Law Enforcement and Public Health Association, Centre for Law Enforcement and Public Health, Melbourne, Australia Assumptions that police typically eschew tertiary education are based on studies in the global North or Western countries. In Southeast and...
  • October 3, 2018
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Dr Isa Bartkowiak-théron1 1Tasmanian Institute of Law Enforcement Studies, UTAS, Hobart, Australia The early critics of police education agree on one topic: in its first inception, police university education was too theoretical or ‘bookish’, and was very disconnected from the...
  • October 3, 2018
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