Month: October 2016

Dr Romy Winter   1Teaching Fellow, Police Studies.  Research Fellow, Tasmanian Institute of Law Enforcement Studies, School of Social Sciences, University of Tasmania The increase in focus on violence amongst current or former partners reveals a chronic problem characterised by a complex set of...
  • October 25, 2016
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Frank V. Ferdik1 1Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of West Florida, fferdik@uwf.edu   Citizen satisfaction with law enforcement can greatly influence crime levels and even police officer job effectiveness. Copious research to date has explored predictors of citizen satisfaction...
  • October 25, 2016
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Emeritus Professor Lucy Frost, University of Tasmania   Convict women serving sentences to transportation lost parental control over their children. Among the almost 13,000 women transported to Van Diemen’s Land, many were already mothers at the time of their trials....
  • October 16, 2016
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