Sustainable Justice Australia

McCay and Sevel’s collection Free Will and the Law consists of a series of essays by various writers about the libertarian theory of free...

In Just deserts: debating free will, Dennett debates with the determinist Caruso, who proposes a public-health model to treat offenders....

Unsurprisingly, Dennett has attempted to shred Harris’s book Free Will to pieces. He agrees that the incoherence of the free-will...

Dennett, The Nefarious Neurosurgeon Daniel Dennett subscribes to the belief that free will and determinism can coexist. In this...

Harris relies heavily on experiments by Benjamin Libet. “The physiologist Benjamin Libet famously used EEG to show that activity in the...

Happy and Successful through Intelligent Communication ​ by Paul Neuteboom. Translated by Suzanne Visser, edited by Phil Walcott and...

In Free Will, Sam Harris states that neuroscientific findings give us clear reason to believe that we do not have free will. This counts...

In 2007, at the beginning of the new atheist movement, the philosophers who later became known as “the four horsemen” or “the heralds of...

For an overview of the debate around free will, The Routledge Companion to Free Will and the Oxford Handbook of Free Will are good...

The phenomenon of (youth) crime in Alice Springs is deeply embedded, of course, in Australia’s colonial past and the declaration of Terra...

To understand a problem, one must read about it. And read I did. The following literature review was conducted from August 2020 to August...

Below I investigate the approximate economic cost of crime in Alice Springs at the time of this writing: 2022. Firstly, I look at pre-tax...

Aboriginal families and Elders feel powerless to discipline children for fear of intervention by child protection services or reprisals...

.Language is a significant disadvantage for Aboriginal people caught up in the justice system. The Northern Territory has, thanks to...

The Western Australian Aboriginal Child Health Survey was the largest and most comprehensive survey ever undertaken into the health,...

My research for this blog attempted to answer the following questions: . 1. What obstacles do we have to overcome to solve the problem of...

This blog has several aims. Firstly, I hope to create a framework for thinking clearly about crime in Alice Springs because such a...

Through the exposure of Dylan Voller’s treatment in detention by Four Corners and the subsequent Royal Commission into the Protection and...

The literature review for this blog identified 31 obstacles we must overcome to solve the problem of (youth) crime in Alice Springs....

When we listen carefully to the offenders, their youth workers, social workers, and psychologists, we learn that certain factors feature...