Month: September 2018

Miss Margarita Dimaksyan1 1Federation University, , Australia In Australia there have been dozens of arrests and charges laid against people who have committed terrorism offences, including individuals already sentenced and others awaiting trials. Increasingly exploited by terrorist organisations is a...
  • September 27, 2018
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Karen Joe Laidler1 1Sociology and Centre for Criminology, University of Hong Kong At present, Northern criminological circles are in heated debate about the nature and meaning of their role in the public arena. Within public criminology discussions, Turner (2013) reminds...
  • September 27, 2018
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Dr Hannah Graham1 1Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research This paper explores emerging findings from a content analysis of images of probation, community corrections and criminal justice social work in jurisdictions in the United Kingdom and Australia. With few...
  • September 27, 2018
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Kate Gooch1 1University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom, In February 2017 HMP Berwyn became the first prison to open with the aim of becoming a ‘rehabilitation prison’. Situated in North Wales, it is the largest prison in the UK, with...
  • September 27, 2018
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Mr Kavan Applegate1 1University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom, The pursuit of rehabilitation in a corrections environment poses numerous challenges and, for the architect, many competing requirements must be balanced as the design of a prison goes from a blank...
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Prof. Yvonne Jewkes1,2 1University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom,  2University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia Discourses of transformation, normalisation, trauma sensitivity and rehabilitation have recently come to the fore in the briefs given to prison architects. Drawing on recent collaborations with...
  • September 27, 2018
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Dr Larissa (Lara) Christensen1, Susan Rayment-McHugh1, Dr Nadine McKillop1 1University Of The Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore DC, Australia Effective prevention of sexual violence and abuse (SVA) must begin with a clear understanding of factors associated with its development, onset, and progression....
  • September 27, 2018
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Susan Rayment-McHugh1 Dimity Adams, Dr Nadine McKillop1 1University Of The Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore DC, Australia Traditional approaches to treating youth who perpetrate sexual offences have been dominated by individual pathology-based conceptualisations. Prevention efforts in this field have reflected this conceptualisation...
  • September 27, 2018
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Dr Nadine McKillop1, Danielle Reynald, and Susan Rayment-McHugh 1University Of The Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore DC, Australia The role of guardianship in preventing crime has received significant international attention. Although initially applied to property crimes, interest in its utility for understanding...
  • September 27, 2018
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Dr Larissa (Lara) Christensen1 1University Of The Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore DC, Australia As a result of traditional gender roles, society has difficulty understanding that females are capable of committing child sexual abuse (CSA). Earlier research has found that professionals (e.g.,...
  • September 27, 2018
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