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Nothing to See Here: Researching Non‐Recent Child Abuse in Schools and the Politics of Silence

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While institutions, including schools, have responsibilities to protect children from harm, responses to instances of child sexual abuse have often exhibited avoidance and denial. Recent public inquiries in Australia revealed that some institutions, particularly in the Catholic sector, employed a deliberate strategy of silence which was used ...
John Crowley, Katie Wright, Kate O'Connor   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A sea of islands, a sea of crime: island crime fiction in the Aegean Sea

Island Studies Journal, 2019
Crime fiction frequently takes the real and imaginary geography of islands as its setting and subject. Through a reading of selected novels by Anne Zouroudi, Jeffrey Siger, and Paul Johnston, this article looks at ways in which ideas about ‘islandness ...
Ralph Crane
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Cartographies policières : la dimension vernaculaire du contrôle territorial

EchoGéo
Crime mapping in police work is subject to many controversies, which underestimate two important elements. First, the anteriority of mapping practices within the police before the implementation of crime mapping technologies.
Melina Germes
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Artificial Intelligence and Access to Justice at the ‘Shop Front’: The Potential and Limitations of Meeting Legal Need Through Technology

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Australia, governments fund Community Legal Centres (CLCs) as part of the legal assistance sector (LAS) to meet the ‘legal needs’ of people experiencing disadvantage who cannot afford private legal services. Persistent unmet demand for CLCs is well‐documented. As artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in private legal practice to
Catherine Hastings, Art Cotterell, Farzana Bruce   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Elites and organized crime : introduction, methodology, and conceptual framework [PDF]

, 2016
Guatemala, Honduras, Colombia and Nicaragua represent an illuminating cross section of criminal organizations and types of elites. Elite dynamics in each of these countries are different, but with important commonalities; the makeup, role and penetration

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To What Extent Do Australian Government Metrics Align With Indigenous and Non‐Indigenous Conceptualisations of Wellbeing? A Scoping Review of Wellbeing Frameworks

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Indigenous wellbeing theories offer potential to better measure social and cultural determinants. This scoping review aimed to identify the types of metrics used by the Australian government to assess wellbeing and evaluate the alignment of current frameworks against Indigenous and non‐Indigenous conceptualisations of wellbeing.
Sophie Wright‐Pedersen, Edward J. O'Connor, Megan Rebuli, Tiana Thorne, Naomi Kakoschke, Ray Mahoney   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Has Inequity Faced by Young Australians With Disability Changed Since the Turn of the Century?

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite the introduction of various policies aimed at promoting equality for people with disability since Australia ratified the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (CRPD) in 2008, there has been little evaluation regarding the extent of change in inequity since then.
Asha Parkinson, Joanne Arciuli, Eric Emerson, Sally Robinson, Sally Chance, Gerry Redmond   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Above and below: measuring crime risk in and around underground mass transit systems [PDF]

, 2014
This paper explores crime risk within and around major transit systems, specifically by investigating theft of personal property offences on the London Underground.
Andy Gill (7754855), Newton, AD, Gill, A, Andrew D Newton, Andrew D. Newton (7754849), Partridge, H, Newton, Andrew D., Henry Partridge, Partridge, Henry, Henry Partridge (7754852), Gill, Andy, Andy Gill   +11 more
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The PIBID Geography Practice as a possibility of (re) elaboration of knowledge about the city / A Prática no PIBID de Geografia como possibilidade de (re)elaboração de saberes sobre a cidade

Diversitas Journal, 2017
Reflecting the importance of geography allows us to understand how this science is essential for understanding and intervention in social reality. The aim is to discuss pedagogical practices of PIBID fellows Geography subproject: "The City in Geography
Rafael Urubá da Silva, Daniele da Silva Severo, Luana Araújo da Silva, Claudionor de Oliveira Silva   +3 more
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‘Shelter is a Dignity’: Rental Racism, Stress and Housing (In)justice

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australia's private rental sector is in crisis, and culturally and racially minoritised renters face compounded harms through both covert and everyday direct forms of rental racism. Drawing on five community‐based focus groups in Melbourne (n = 37), the paper explores how racism manifests across the rental pathway and how it structures the ...
Erika Martino, Ilan Wiesel, Ang Li, Rebecca Bentley   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source