Risky bodies risky systems: Post-prison policy practice and experience

Dr Mindy Sotiri1 1Community Restorative Centre, Broadway, Australia This paper will explore perpetual punishment in the context of leaving prison in NSW, with a particular focus on policies impacting on housing, employment and social connection post-imprisonment. It will argue that...
  • September 26, 2018
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Miss Jordan Anderson1 1Victoria University Of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand Community notification policy and practice has expanded across the advanced liberal democracies, far beyond the initial bounds set out in Megan’s Law in the United States in 1994. In New...
  • August 22, 2018
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Bronwyn Naylor1, Georgina Heydon2 1Graduate School Of Business And Law, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, 2School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia Criminal record checking is now widespread in Australia.   Aboriginal people are disproportionately represented in the...
  • July 26, 2018
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Danielle Harris1 1Griffith Criminology Institute, Mt Gravatt, Australia In Queensland, Australia, approximately 100 men have been released from prison under the Dangerous Prisoners (Sexual Offenders) Act 2003. This legislation provides for intensive community supervision and rather punitive offender management measures...
  • July 9, 2018
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