Sub-Plenary Panel

Professor Hamish Maxwell-Stewart Associate Dean Research, Faculty of Arts, University of Tasmania Because of the detailed nature of the information included in transportation records it is possible to follow many of the convicts landed in Van Diemen’s Land over the course of...
  • September 25, 2016
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Associate Professor Adrian Cherney Police rely on information and assistance from the community in order to disrupt and prevent acts of terrorism. However such assistance will not be forthcoming or sustained unless the police undertake effective forms of community engagement....
  • September 22, 2016
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Associate Professor Adrian Cherney Police rely on information and assistance from the community in order to disrupt and prevent acts of terrorism. However such assistance will not be forthcoming or sustained unless the police undertake effective forms of community engagement....
  • September 22, 2016
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Professor Maggie Walter Pro Vice-Chancellor Aboriginal Research and Leadership, University of Tasmania Population statistics are not neutral data. And statistical non-neutrality poses significant, but frequently disregarded or misunderstood ethical issues in the doing of Indigenous criminology. Indigenous population statistics in...
  • August 22, 2016
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Chris Cunneen   This paper draws on the recently published book Indigenous Criminology (Policy Press, 2016) and co-authored with Juan Tauri. In a non-prescriptive way, it sets out what we see as the key elements that make-up an Indigenous criminology....
  • August 21, 2016
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Chris Cunneen   This paper draws on the recently published book Indigenous Criminology (Policy Press, 2016) and co-authored with Juan Tauri. In a non-prescriptive way, it sets out what we see as the key elements that make-up an Indigenous criminology....
  • August 21, 2016
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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...
  • August 1, 2016
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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...
  • July 20, 2016
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Peter Squires1, Rick Sarre2 1 Professor of Criminology & Public Policy, University of Brighton, p.a.squires@brighton.ac.uk 2 Rick.Sarre@unisa.edu.au It is 20 years now since the awful shooting tragedies of Dunblane and Port Arthur changed the politics of global gun control – arguably forever. Yet...
  • July 20, 2016
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Stefan Petrow In the late 1960s Henry Reynolds explored the effects on Tasmania of the ‘hated stain’ of convictism and in particular how ex-convicts were responsible for the ‘residuum of crime, disease, [immorality] and poverty’ that loomed large in the...
  • July 20, 2016
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