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‘People Need to Understand That They Are Stealing From Their Neighbours’: A Critical Media Analysis of the Representations and Resistance Throughout the Robodebt Scheme

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Robodebt scheme issued thousand‐dollar debts to an estimated half a million people who had received social security. The debts were largely inaccurate and illegal, with the aim of improving the federal government's budget. The 2023 Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme found that the stigmatising political and public language about ...
Ella Kruger, Phillipa Evans
wiley   +1 more source

An evaluation of a methadone treatment programme : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Psychology at Massey University [PDF]

open access: yes, 1987
The evaluation of a methadone treatment programme was the main focus of this study. A posttest-only design, with a nonequivalent comparison group was used to evaluate both summative and formative aspects of the programme.
Clark, Jahna
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(Re)definition of a Criminal Group in Slovak Legislation as a Means of a More Effective Fight against Organised Crime

open access: yesBratislava Law Review
We consider organised crime to be one of the most dangerous types of criminal activity. At the same time, it is one of the most significant problems in the globalised world, in which this phenomenon took root in people's consciousness hand in hand with ...
Karin Vrtíková
doaj   +1 more source

Concept «committing a crime by an organized group»: conceptual bases of research

open access: yesПроблеми Законності, 2017
The article proved that the offense is an organized group of criminal-legal phenomenon and concepts (phenomenon), which was first found in the legal definition of Ukrainian Criminal Code 2001, ch. 3 of his art.
Надія Володимирівна Невідома
doaj   +1 more source

Criminal law instruments of the adequacy of environmental protection: The norm and praxis of Republika Srpska [PDF]

open access: yesGlasnik Advokatske komore Vojvodine, 2022
The questions that constitute the subject matter of this article are analyzed through three groups of questions and concluding remarks in which the basic findings reached in the professional-critical analysis of these questions are presented in the form ...
Govedarica Milimir
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‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
wiley   +1 more source

Immigration-Related Worksite Enforcement: Performance Measures [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
[Excerpt] Over the past few years, the media have been filled with reports about worksite enforcement operations, commonly referred to as immigration raids.
Bruno, Andorra
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Structural injustice, marginality, and neurolaw: a normative comparative and theoretical approach

open access: yesFrontiers in Sociology
In this paper, we introduce a perspective based on a comparative viewpoint on the Colombian Penal Code and a theoretical approach to neurolaw and criminal responsibility in contexts of marginality and extreme poverty. We present a further response to the
José Manuel Díaz-Soto, Diego Borbón
doaj   +1 more source

CLASSIFICATION OF CRIMINAL GROUPS

open access: yesCBU International Conference Proceedings, 2013
New types of criminal groups are emerging in modern society.  These types have their special criminal subculture. The research objective is to develop new parameters of classification of modern criminal groups, create a new typology of criminal groups and identify some features of their subculture.
openaire   +2 more sources

The Legislation for Providing Animal Access in Australian Residential Aged Care: It's Not a Zoo

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Providing meaningful animal contact to residential aged care facility (RACF) residents is problematic due to a lack of animal policies and National Guidelines. This paper examines how Australian Legislation could influence access to animal contact in RACFs and aims to answer the question, ‘Could current Legislation facilitate the development ...
Wendy Newton   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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