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The perfect storm - a moment for decarceration
, 2012 The metaphorical use of the term ‘perfect storm’ has been applied to the conditions that led to a decrease in the level of incarceration for children in England and Wales in the 1980s.
Hester, Richard
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
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BMC Psychiatry, 2012 Background Substance use in general has been shown to predict criminal recidivism. The present study aimed to examine potential predictors of criminal recidivism, including substance-specific substance use patterns, in prisoners with substance use ...
Håkansson Anders, Berglund Mats
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Free will, neuroscience, and choice: towards a decisional capacity model for insanity defense evaluations [PDF]
, 2017 Il libero arbitrio è stato spesso considerato una tematica centrale nella dottrina della responsabilità criminale. Ciononostante, il concetto stesso di libero arbitrio presenta intrinseche problematiche nella sua definizione teorica e applicazione ...
Biondi, Massimo +5 more
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The Cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme: Australia's Print‐Media Discourse
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the way that Australian newspapers have framed the cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Introduced in 2013, the NDIS represented a major change in Australia's disability support policy, moving for the first time to a nationwide universal insurance model.
Meera Chinnappa +2 more
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, 2018 Crime-preventing neurointerventions (CPNs) are increasingly being used or advocated for crime prevention. There is increasing use of testosterone-lowering agents to prevent recidivism in sexual offenders, and strong political and scientific interest in ...
Birks, David, Douglas, Thomas
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Australia's Robodebt scheme, an automated debt recovery program introduced in 2016, was exposed by the Robodebt Royal Commission (RC) as a serious failure of public administration and source of significant harm for thousands of Australians. Through a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of Australian news media, this study explores whether the RC'
Rebecca Coleman‐Hicks +1 more
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Criminal behaviour patterns of a serial robbery perpetrator: A case study [PDF]
NBP: Nauka, bezbednost, policijaThis paper examines a series of 24 robberies committed by a single offender, using the data obtained from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, specifically the Police Directorate of the City of Belgrade.
Baić Valentina +2 more
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Delincuencia, personalidad y psicopatología [PDF]
, 2008 Ambientalismos (sociológicos y psicológicos) y endogenismos psicológicos y biológicos son incapaces de explicar de forma satisfactoria la delincuencia violenta.
Pelechano Barberá, Vicente
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Little is known about the impacts of the disclosure, or the non‐disclosure, of medical conditions associated with neurodiversity in the context of court proceedings and hearings before tribunals and commissions. This paper examines the experiences of twenty‐three Queensland Judges, Magistrates, and Tribunal and Commission Members with ...
Danielle Bozin +5 more
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