Month: July 2018

Siobhan Allen1, Peter Lunney1, Kierryn Graf1 1Queensland Police Service, Brisbane, Australia The Communities Against Substance Misuse Project, known as Project CASM, sought to provide a diversionary and protective approach to reduce youth volatile substance misuse (VSM) in Brisbane, through retailer...
  • July 26, 2018
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Diarmaid Harkin1, Adam Molnar1 1Deakin University , Burwood, Australia This presentation will report on the findings of an investigation into the consumer spyware industry. While consumers of ‘spyware’ have often been government and law enforcement, there is an increasing attempt...
  • July 26, 2018
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Dennis Wong1 1City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong In Hong Kong, juvenile justice mainly embraces disciplinary welfare and rehabilitative philosophies. Various statutory measures are applied to juvenile offenders, including police cautioning, community-based treatment measures, and custodial sentencing options....
  • July 26, 2018
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Tim Corcoran1, Julie White2, Kitty Te Riele3, Alison Baker2, Philippa Moylan2 1School Of Education, Deakin University, Burwood, Australia, 2Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia, 3University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia Past research has established the critical importance of education to the lives of...
  • July 26, 2018
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Melissa Jardine1 1UNSW Law, Kensington, Australia Vietnam is a one-party state with police required to pledge loyalty to the Vietnamese Communist Party. The police emerged during a time of political instability in a war against colonialism and for national independence...
  • July 26, 2018
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Harley Williamson1 1Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia The threat of terrorism has catalysed a series of preventative and reactive legislative responses, which have received widespread public and political support. Paralleling these measures are pervasive discourses that associate terrorism with Muslims and...
  • July 26, 2018
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Martín Aragón1 1Universidad De Cádiz, Jerez De La Frontera, Spain By the Constitutional Law 1/2015, the Spanish Criminal Code was amended to introduce a new sentencing under the name “revisable permanent prison”, which basically allow parole ineligibility periods and abolish...
  • July 26, 2018
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Lesley Simmonds1 1Plymouth University, Plymouth, United Kingdom Victim Services provision in England and Wales has undergone a seismic shift in recent years, following the move to the local commissioning of victim services.  This commissioning role was, contentiously, given to Local...
  • July 26, 2018
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Zoe James1, Katie McBride1 1University Of Plymouth, Uk, Plymouth, United Kingdom This paper sets out the critical hate studies perspective which provides a theoretical account of the harms of hate in contemporary society. In doing so the paper challenges existing...
  • July 26, 2018
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