Sustainable Justice Australia

American research has identified gang-impacted communities as populations susceptible to PTSD or “post-traumatic street disorder”, a term...

More often than not, offenders suffer from the same symptoms as victims do. Offenders are often victims themselves, and their offending...

In the previous chapters, we have seen that factors beyond our conscious control (genetic, social, environmental) shape our behaviour....

Sustainable Justice Australia advocates for a Sustainable Justice Think Tank. [1] Since there are several areas of law to consider when...

“The Indigenous kids I work with are powerless and voiceless. They are currently legally represented by the North Australian Aboriginal...

Bush courts handled critical legal work, which is now under serious threat, despite the recently signed Aboriginal Justice Agreement. The...

The Zachary Rolfe Case in 2022 hammered home the need for more Aboriginal people on juries. One of the biggest hurdles to better...

The Centre for Sustainable Justice explains on its website (www.sustainablejustice.org) how one of the biggest obstacles to sustainable...

A truly revolutionary system is in place in New York, USA. In Youth Courts in Harlem, the Bronx, Staten Island and Newark N.J., positive...

How judges and magistrates are influenced by irrelevant factors is described by Schauer in What the judge had for breakfast (2009)....

A secondary problem caused by the laws of complicity is that offenders remain silent or engage in gratuitous concurrence during police...

On 1 August 2023, the NT became the first Australian jurisdiction to raise the age of criminal liability from the previous minimum age of...

Accessories to a crime, as Zac Grieve was, are found in the context of gangs and crowd violence, but also in the context of crimes that...

Mandatory minimum sentences reduce judges to instruments of injustice. New Zealand has passed the Three Strikes Legislation Repeal Act...

Let us return to the Zac Grieve case. I recap what it is about: Four people, Grieve, Malyschko, Halfpenny and Buttery, planned the...

The concept of Anglo-American criminal law has evolved over a thousand years, responding to new knowledge about the origins of human...

Next: The concept of mens rea and free will and the law is looked at in a local context, as well as the division between criminal law and...

The widely-publicised Dylan Voller case illustrates how a problem develops into revolving-door justice and counterproductive prisons that...

Trauma caused by the law and law enforcement The Dylan Voller case illustrates the trauma that law and law enforcement cause offenders....

According to local senior police officers, family dysfunction is the most prevalent cause of rising crime rates in Central Australia....