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Examining the Impact of Domestic and Family Violence on Young Australians’ School‐Level Education

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australian policy and practice increasingly acknowledges the need to respond to children as victim‐survivors of domestic and family violence (DFV) in their own right. As part of this, and in recognition that schools often have the most consistent contact with young people experiencing DFV, there is mounting recognition of the role education ...
Rebecca Stewart, Kate Fitz‐Gibbon, Steven Roberts   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Psychopathy, Emotional Recognition, and Moral Judgment in Female Inmates

Anuario de Psicología Jurídica
Despite the lower levels of psychopathy in women than in men, the scientific interest in studying psychopathy in female participants is increasing. Nevertheless, the number of studies investigating psychopathy in women and associated phenomena remains ...
Teresa Pinto, Fernando Barbosa
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Social welfare and severity of criminal punishment

Правоприменение, 2019
The subject. The article is devoted to the correlation between the level of social welfare and the degree of criminal punishment’s repressiveness.The purpose of the article is to confirm or disprove hypothesis that improving the social welfare increases ...
Oleg N. Bibik
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Understanding Youth Assaults of Police Officers in Australia: A Power Threat Meaning Framework Analysis

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores youth violence towards police officers in Australia through the Power Threat Meaning Framework (PTMF) to better understand the underlying factors contributing to such violence; focusing on power dynamics, childhood adversity, and trauma.
Dimitra Lattas, Kelly Hine, Catherine Creamer, Kelley Burton, Katelyn Davenport‐Klunder   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

National and International Monitoring of Student Literacy and Numeracy Attainment: The Case for Rigorous Macro and Micro Analysis

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In her 2024 paper Are Australian students' academic skills declining? Interrogating 25 years of national and international standardised assessment data, Larsen compiled an impressive summary of major international (PISA, PIRLS and TIMSS) and national (NAPLAN) standardised assessments pertaining to literacy and numeracy.
Pamela C. Snow, Tanya A. Serry, Jennifer Buckingham, Lorraine S. Hammond, Stephen Dinham, Eamon Charles, Tessa A. Weadman, Nathanial R. Swain, Susan Hiland, Tessa Daffern   +9 more
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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
wiley   +1 more source

Navigating Whiteness in Australia's Anti‐Racism Movement: A Duoethnographic Inquiry by Women of Colour Scholars

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper applies Critical Race Theory (CRT) to explore how whiteness operates within Australia's anti‐racism movement as a structuring force that shapes discourse, practice and policy. Despite the anti‐racism movement offering crucial spaces for resistance and reform, it remains entangled in Australia's settler‐colonial present and systemic ...
Franka Vaughan, Aish Ravi
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Sitting in Many Camps—Innovative Approaches and Methods for First Nations‐Led Research Into Indigenous Peacebuilding

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2021, a desktop review was conducted of published references to First Nations peoples' approaches to conflict and its management in Australia (Project Stage One), culminating in a report published in 2024. This article focuses on Project Stage Two, a complex, innovative research undertaking building on the findings of Stage One, and being ...
Helen Bishop, Alysoun Boyle, Tania Sourdin, Bin Li   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Imprisonment of Female Urban and Rural Offenders in Victoria, 1860-1920

International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2019
This paper examines imprisonment data from Victoria between 1860 and 1920 to gather insights into the variations in incidence of women being convicted by rural versus urban courts, including close focus on the difference in types of offences being ...
Victoria Nagy, Alana Piper
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To Raise or Not to Raise: An Experimental Test of Community Support for Increasing the Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility in New South Wales, Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While research has identified a disconnect between the minimum age of criminal responsibility (MACR) and public perceptions of criminal culpability among young people, no study has examined how offender characteristics influence support for reform using an experimental design. To address this, this study presents the first experimental test of
Cameron T. Langfield, Natalia Hanley, Jason L. Payne, Helen Simpson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source