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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

Criminal Associations: Insights into the Concept, Types, and Challenges for Legislative Improvements to Combat Them

Ученые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки
This article suggests improvements to the criminal law measures against organized crime. The terminology and conceptual framework of criminal groups were analyzed using various methods, such as dialectical, comparative-legal, system-structural, and ...
I. Yu. Kufelkina
doaj   +1 more source

Cohesion Without Consensus: Attitudinal Profiles of Social Cohesion in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Headline indicators of social cohesion in Australia have remained stable in recent years despite rising political polarisation and declining institutional trust worldwide. Yet recent protests and incidents of ethnically and politically motivated violence suggest that cohesion may be under strain. If cohesion is understood not as the pursuit of
John van Kooy
wiley   +1 more source

Identifying the Service Requirements for Primary Sexual Assault Medical Care and Forensic Evidence Collection in a Remote First Nations Community

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT First Nations female sexual assault survivors in remote Northern Territory (NT) face significant barriers accessing place‐based medical care and forensic evidence collection, subsequently requiring evacuation to specialist services. Using decolonising Participatory Action Research methods, this study identified the workforce, training, and ...
Theresa Clasquin, Rachel Dikul Baker, Rosemary Gundjarranbuy, Annie Whybourne, Sue Kildea, Sue Kruske, Elaine Ḻäwurrpa Maypilama, Sarah Ireland   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Volunteering, Crime and Secondary School Attendance: Evidence From Queensland

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Student absenteeism is a critical issue in Australia and worldwide, with alarming declines in attendance rates further exacerbated by the COVID‐19 pandemic. While research has long highlighted the relevance of school and family factors, less is known about how the broader community context shapes attendance.
Matthias Kubler, Brooklyn Corbett, Annemaree Carroll, Martin Mills, Deborah Lynch, Wojtek Tomaszewski   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Jointly modeling time-varying offending profiles and criminal career trajectories in a sample of sexual offenders : A multivariate approach to modelling criminal careers [PDF]

, 2012
The study begins by summarising three key topics of research in criminal careers of sexual offenders: explaining the observed bimodality of the age-crime curve for sexual offenders; determining whether rapists and child molesters follow well-separated ...
Weldon, Matthew, Francis, Brian
core   +3 more sources

Where Imprisonment, Housing Instability and Wellbeing Intersect: Evidence From Over Two Decades of Data

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study draws on life event data on housed former prisoners from the nationwide indefinite life panel, Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey, spanning more than two decades. This study investigates, using panel data methods, if social connectedness mediates the association between incarceration and unstable ...
Christopher L. Ambrey, Renee Zahnow
wiley   +1 more source

Strengthening Responses to Older Adult Abuse: A Review of Contextual Prevention Strategies in Australian Policy

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Older adult abuse is a significant social issue that has attracted necessary attention in Australian policy. Yet, the scope of abuse prevention strategies proposed within these policies has not been systematically reviewed, nor has their alignment with evidence‐informed frameworks been assessed.
Madeline Lee, Emily Moir, Nadine McKillop   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘I Used to Be Illegal and Now I'm a Priority’: A Critical Thematic Analysis of LGBTI+ Voices From the Australian Royal Commission Into Aged Care

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Due to historic and anticipated discrimination, engaging aged care services can see LGBTI+ older adults conceal their sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. Recommendations from the Australian Royal Commission into Aged Care claim to have addressed the needs of a range of diversity groups, including the needs of LGBTI+ older
Patricia Cain, Eyal Gringart, Davina Porock   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Criminal Social Identity in a Sample of Incarcerated Juvenile Offenders in Pakistan [PDF]

Due to the absence of a reliable and valid measure of criminal social identity to be used with juvenile offenders in Pakistan, the focus of the first empirical chapter was to translate the self-report Measure of Criminal Social Identity (MCSI) into Urdu ...
Shagufta, Sonia
core   +2 more sources