Earlier this year the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability commissioned the research project, Police Responses to People with Disability. The research was conducted by CCLJ members, Simone Rowe and Eileen Baldry, together with Leanne Dowse and Michael Baker (UNSW).
Published on Wednesday, December 1, 2021
UNSW Centre for Crime, Law and Justice intern, Yasmine Fricker, attended the 2021 CCLJ Annual Lecture delivered by Professor Kelly Hannah-Moffat. We invited Yasmine to share some reflections on the lecture.
Published on Tuesday, November 16, 2021
UNSW Centre for Crime, Law and Justice intern, Rose Chubb, attended the 2021 Australian RebLaw Conference. We invited Rose to share some reflections on the event.
Published on Tuesday, August 10, 2021
CCLJ Intern Maddison Buchholz examines three recent sexual assault reform inquiries in Australia and reflects on the relationship between government intentions and community responses in the #MeToo era.
Published on Tuesday, August 10, 2021
The results of a survey of Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology (ANZSOC) members of what they considered to be the publications “which most profoundly shaped criminological scholarship in Australia and New Zealand” over the fifty year period 1967-2017 show UNSW criminologists ranking highly.
Published on Thursday, July 1, 2021
Click here to read the July 2021 edition of the Centre for Crime, Law and Justice Newsletter.
Published on Thursday, June 17, 2021
As we approach the 40th anniversary of the landmark book in Australia penology, The Prison Struggle: Changing Australia's Penal System (Penguin Books, 1982), CCLJ Intern Isaac Kwong had the opportunity to interview one of the authors – David Brown, Emeritus Professor, UNSW Faculty of Law and Justice. Click through for the transcript of the insightful interview.
Published on Tuesday, June 1, 2021
Combining the disparate areas of green criminology, environmental crime and restorative justice, center member Mark Hamilton seeks to explore what role restorative justice conferencing can play in giving victims and offenders of environmental crime voice, interaction and input into the sentencing of environmental offenders.
Published on Friday, May 28, 2021
On 25 May 2021, the CCLJ hosted a special HDR event on ‘Demystifying Thesis Examination’. CCLJ HDR members were joined by other HDR candidates from the Faculty of Law & Justice as they listened to four experienced examiners discuss their approach to examining PhD theses.
Published on Thursday, May 20, 2021
Centre member Professor Luke McNamara was recently involved in the Public Interest Advocacy Centre’s (PIAC) ‘Policing Public Space’ Forum concerning the experiences of people sleeping rough and their interactions with police officers. Luke was part of a panel of law and policy experts providing expertise on the matter to celebrate the recent launch of the ‘Policing Public Space: The Experiences of People Sleeping Rough’ report.