The Kumanjayi Walker shooting, the trial that followed and the coronial inquest that followed the trial has hammered home the need to...

Lawyers experience very high levels of vicarious trauma and trauma. Even without prior trauma, contact with legal processes is stressful....

Prison guards in Alice Springs walked off the job in July 2022 following similar industrial action in Darwin. United Workers Union NT’s...

Victim Trauma American research has identified gang-impacted communities as populations susceptible to PTSD or “post-traumatic street...

Cultural trauma causes personal trauma as a response to the shattering events that caused the cultural trauma. It is so persistent and...

It is safe to say that most offenders in Alice Springs are the victims of cultural trauma. Culture suppresses anxieties,...

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

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...

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...

This and the next few blogs will discuss various problems within the law when it comes to youth crime. The concept of mens rea and free...

The Rolfe case is a good example of how volatile situations can become in the Northern Territory. In 2019 in Yuendumu, 19-year-old...

The Zak Grieve case illustrates how the combination of mandatory sentencing and the laws of complicity cause unequal justice and put...

Bizarre law enforcement practices and courts are not restricted to inanimate things, trees and animals. Museums all over Europe bear...

The history of bizarre practices in the previous blog, which is, in fact, about blameworthiness, concludes with a thought experiment...

This blog post presents the reader with an overview of bizarre practices in courts throughout the centuries. It then looks at three...

The arts in prison The healing properties of the arts and sports have long been recognised in Alice Springs. They cause the town to be...

Norwegian and Icelandic Correctional Services use the normality principle. No one serves their sentence under stricter circumstances than...

In September 1999, the Australian Institute of Criminology ran a round-table seminar on Public Health Perspectives on Interpersonal...

Disability in offenders Research by the Australian Brain Injury Organisation shows that: “issues relating to non-disclosure,...