Sustainable Justice Australia

NGOs and government organisations do not reach the youth on the street sufficiently Multiple services may surround offenders in Alice...

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

Offenders’ intergenerational trauma Michael Halloran states in Cultural Maintenance and Trauma in Indigenous Australia that one effect of...

According to the Office of the Children’s Commissioner in the Northern Territory’s Annual Report 2020-2021, harm to children in detention...

Trauma is no longer a subject discussed only by experts. Books about trauma have now become number-one bestsellers. In recent years, Dr...

Regarding more serious crimes, the Zachary Rolfe case in 2021 has hammered home the fact that all-white juries are a problem in the...

Since there are several areas of law to consider when thinking about sustainable justice, a sustainable justice think-tank seems called...

It is not because of a lack of expert recommendations that the Northern Territory justice system suffers from revolving-door justice that...

Magistrates are exposed to an endless line being processed through the justice system and although they must be stoic, this must have an...

Zac Grieve received the harshest punishment of all offenders: twenty years in prison without parole. In his case, the combination of...

When police apprehend one offender of a group offence, this person must assist the police in finding the others. Aboriginal people are...

The laws of complicity are triggered by crimes committed by groups and are highly complex. These laws have been criticized heavily for...

Dr Mick Creati, paediatrician and spokesperson for the Royal Australia College of Physicians, said in an interview with SBS News in 2020:...

In civil law cases, an offender is being sued by a victim and must pay damages or otherwise make right the harm done; the plaintiff must...

The following chapter describes problems found in the literature concerning the law as it touches the lives of people in the Northern...

The right to humane treatment in detention requires that offenders be treated with dignity. This right complements the prohibition on...

Richard Mendel, in What Works in the Prevention of Youth Crime, shows that, as a quick fix, short-term shock incarceration such as boot...

Judgements of blame are not always based on a rational and balanced assessment of free will, as the law presumes. We decide how much...

Chinese perspectives on free will by Marchal and Wenzel and free will and freedom in Indian philosophies (by Chakrabarti provide good...

Someone suggested, in reaction to the last blog, that a life's work should be criticized as no longer relevant. I therefore expand: David...