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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

Australian Activists as Storytellers in Digital Spaces: Acquiring Skills, Producing Content and Getting the Message Out

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As modes of activism rapidly evolve, activists—both seasoned and emerging—must increasingly navigate a hybrid terrain of both digital and non‐digital engagement. This paper draws on the personal narratives of 16 nascent activists based in Australia to explore how they develop competencies related to digital storytelling, which is critical to ...
Garth Stahl, Miri Yemini, Claire Maxwell, Yating Hu, Benjamin Adams, Sarah Bergen   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘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

Violent and property crime trends: local and international comparisons [PDF]

, 2015
Overview Aim: To compare crime trends in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the USA, England and Wales, and Scandinavia. Method: Trend data were extracted from publications and online data repositories.
Paul Nelson
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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

To use and engage? Identifying distinct user types in interaction with a smartphone-based intervention

Computers in Human Behavior Reports
Background: Smartphone users are a heterogeneous group, implying that certain user types might be distinguishable by the way they interact with a smartphone-based intervention.
Aniek M. Siezenga, Esther C.A. Mertens, Jean-Louis van Gelder   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Crime-Crime Prevention Relationship: A Manchester Case Study [PDF]

, 2008
Crime data analysis and the identification of crime ‘hotspots’ are now commonplace in police forces and local authorities in Britain. Significantly less attention has been paid to the systematic collection and analysis of data on crime prevention.
Newton, Andrew D., Hirschfield, Alex, Newton, Andrew   +2 more
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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

The spatial patterning of emergency demand for police services: a scoping review

Crime Science
This preregistered scoping review provides an account of studies which have examined the spatial patterning of emergency reactive police demand (ERPD) as measured by calls for service data.
Samuel Langton, Stijn Ruiter, Linda Schoonmade   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Danger of ‘Collective illusions’ About Crime

, 2022
ArticleIs it even possible to have an honest discussion about solutions to crime without first discussing whether criminals are in fact responsible for the crimes they commit? Just as importantly, what makes this such a difficult discussion to have?
Pollack, Daniel, Reiser, Robert
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