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>Beyond
Punishment Seminar Series
Recent
Seminars in the Series:
'Faith-based
interventions -
the role of religion in corrections'
Thursday
27 March 2008
Sydney University Law School
Religion
and spirituality have long played a central
practical and symbolic role in rehabilitation
and reconciliation and this role has been highlighted
in moves to more restorative justice processes.
The seminar participants discussed the role
of faith-based interventions in corrections
and explored any effects they may have on such
issues as recidivism.
Chair:
Dr Murray Lee, Co-Director, Institute
of Criminology
Commentator:
Associate Professor Eileen Baldry,
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University
of New South Wales. Eileen is also a spokesperson
for 'Beyond Bars'.
Speakers:
Father Michael Whelan SM, Principal
of the Aquinas Academy in Sydney. Michael is also
the author of numerous books and journal articles
on spirituality and is the co-founder of 'Spirituality
in the Pub'.
Nada
Roude. Nada has had extensive experience
in working with Arab and Muslim communities. She
is the founder of a number of women's organisations
such as the Muslim Women's Association, the Arabic
Women's Federation and the first Muslim women's
refuge. Nada currently works as a cross-cultural
trainer and educator.
Judge Chris Geraghty, Judge of
the NSW District Court. Judge Geraghty was a Catholic
priest for 14 years before he left the priesthood
in 1976.
Commentator:
Reverend Rodney Moore,
Chaplaincy Co-ordinator, NSW Department of Corrective
Services.
*A
public seminar in the Beyond Punishment series,
engaging in critical debate about prisons, community
programs and related issues, co-sponsored by the
NSW Department of Corrective Services.
Date:
Thursday, 27 March 2008, 5.30pm - 7.30 pm
Venue: Assembly Hall, Level 4 (entry
level), Sydney University Law School, 173-175 Phillip
Street, Sydney
Contact Rachel Miller 02 9351 0239 or r.miller@usyd.edu.au
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The
Institute of Criminology, University of Sydney and
the NSW Department of Corrective Services present
a seminar on:
'Recent
Developments in Aboriginal-focused Correctional
Centres in NSW'
Wednesday
15 August 2007
Sydney University Law School
This
seminar will look at how Aboriginal correctional
facilities operate, critiques of these centres
and also the impact on issues such as re-offending.
The speakers will specifically focus on the
NSW correctional centres Yetta Dhinnakkal (Brewarrina)
and Warrakirri (Ivanhoe). These facilities are
new and innovative and are designed specifically
to meet the needs of Aboriginal offenders in
the criminal justice system. These correctional
facilities offer offenders a wide range of TAFE
and other educational opportunities as well
as providing offenders with guidance from the
Residential Cultural Elder. The seminar speakers
will visit Yetta Dhinnakkal, courtesy of the
Department of Corrective Services, so they can
get a first hand understanding of the way the
correctional centre works.
Seminar
Speakers Include the general manager of
Yetta Dhinnakkal and other workers at the centre
involved with community projects and education.
Current inmates will also be presenting their perspective
either via video or through PowerPoint. A representative
from the Aboriginal Legal Service will be speaking.
Chair:
Professor Duncan Chappell, Acting Director,
Institute of Criminology
Speakers:
Clarrie
Dries, Yetta Dhinnakkal General Manager;
Presentation: Film of group at Yetta Dhinnakkal
participating in community and education programs
Christopher Edwards-Haines, Artist,
Songwriter, Postgraduate Scholar, Southern Cross
University Lismore
Professor Judy Atkinson, Head
of Gnibi College of Indigenous Australian Peoples,
Southern Cross University
Trevor Christian, Aboriginal
Legal Service
Commentators:
Professor Chris Cunneen, NewSouth Global
Chair in Criminology, Faculty of Law, University
of NSW
Terry Chenery, Executive Officer,
Aboriginal Justice Advisory Council
Luke Grant, Assistant Commissioner
NSW Department of Corrective Services
*A
public seminar in the Beyond Punishment series,
engaging in critical debate about prisons, community
programs and related issues, co-sponsored by the
NSW Department of Corrective Services.
Date:
15 August 2007, 5.30pm - 7.30 pm
Venue: Minter Ellison Conference
Room, Level 13, Sydney University Law School, 173-175
Phillip Street, Sydney
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'Compulsory
Drug Treatment Orders: A human rights violation or
a pragmatic approach to drug-related offending?'
The
Compulsory Drug Treatment Correctional Centre
Act 2004 (NSW) commenced in July 2006. The Compulsory
Drug Treatment Program is an interagency endeavour
- primarily between the NSW
Drug Court, the Attorney-General's Department
and Justice Health. The Compulsory
Drug Treatment Correctional Centre located
in Parklea commenced operation in September 2006.
The Centre aims to ensure the treatment, rehabilitation
and reintegration of male participants who have
repeatedly offended in order to support a drug
dependence. Participants progress from detention
to semi-detention to community custody. The rate
of progress is overseen by the NSW Drug Court.
This model of offender rehabilitation is unique
in Australia.
His
Honour Judge Roger Dive, Senior Judge, Drug
Court of New South Wales
Professor Don Thomson, Psychology
Dept, Charles Sturt University
Astrid Birgden, Director, Compulsory
Drug Treatment Correctional Centre, Dept of Corrective
Services NSW
Chair:
Luke Grant, Assistant Commissioner,
Offender Services & Programs, Dept of Corrective
Services NSW
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Previous
Seminars
Sex
Offenders and Risk Assessment
A public
seminar in the Beyond Punishment series, engaging in
critical debate about prisons, community programs and
related issues, co-sponsored by the NSW Department of
Corrective Services.
Speaker:
Bill Marshall, Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Queens
University, Kingston Ontario, Canada
Dr Marshall
has been treating sexual offenders, and conducting research
with them, for the past 35 years. Dr Marshall has assisted
in establishing and refining treatment programs for
sexual offenders in 15 countries and has over 300 publications
including 17 books.
Chair:
Luke Grant, Assistant Commissioner, Offender Management,
NSW Dept of Corrective Services
Date:
Wednesday 22 March 2006, 5.30pm
Venue: Minter Ellison Conference Room, level 13, Sydney
University Law School, 173-175 Phillip Street, Sydney
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'Punishment
at the Crossroads: Contesting Disciplinary governance'
Speaker:
Professor Pat Carlen, Honorary Professor of Criminology,
Keele University
'Imprisonment and the Penal Body Politic: The
Cancer of Disciplinary Governance'
Commentator:
Dr Eileen Baldry, Senior Lecturer, School of Social
Work, University of New South Wales
Chair:
Professor Chris Cunneen, Institute of Criminology, Faculty
of Law, University of Sydney
Date:
Tuesday 4 October 2005, 5.30pm – 7.30 pm
Venue: Assembly Hall, Level 4 (street
level) Sydney University Law School, 173-175 Phillip
Street, Sydney
Seminar
Abstract:
During the last couple of decades, disciplinary technique
has achieved such a stranglehold over penal politics,
the management of prisons and all oppositional critique
(including that of prison reformers, prison staff
and academics) that few have questioned the seeming
inevitability of ever-increasing public punitiveness
and ever-rising prison populations. Yet there have,
however, recently been signs that both politicians and
public are again waking up to the fact that imprisonment
neither delivers all that politicans promise (in terms
of crime reduction), nor all that the public wants (in
terms of risk reduction). In this lecture, therefore,
it will be argued that for those who doubt the efficacy
in reducing crime, this is most probably a good time
to speak up and argue for a contraction of prison populations
and renewed experimentation with non-custodial methods
of responding to crime
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Families
of Prisoners - impacts & consequences
A
seminar in the Beyond Punishment Seminar Series. Engaging
in critical debate about prisons, community programs
and related issues. Co-sponsored by the NSW Department
of Corrective Services.
The
multiple challenges facing the families of prisoners
will be discussed at this seminar - from destitution,
disrupted parent-child relationships, through to loss
of home and support network.
Some
issues that will be addressed include: the impact on
personal, financial, social networks; the impact on
children, including separation issues, adaptation in
peer environments, educational impacts; and the complexity
& severity of presenting issues that families of
prisoners bring to human service agencies.
Thursday
23th of June 2005, 5.30-7.30pm, in the Assembly Hall,
Level 4, Sydney University Law School: 173-175 Phillip
St, Sydney. |
'The
Efficacy of Sex Offender Treatment Programs'*
A
public seminar in the Beyond Punishment series, engaging
in critical debate about prisons, community programs
and related issues. Co-sponsored by the NSW Department
of Corrective Services.
Speakers:
Prof
Bill Marshall, Emeritus Professor of Psychology
at Queens University, Kingston Ontario, Canada.
Prof David Greenberg, Clinical
Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Western
Australia, Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the
University of New South Wales and Director, Court
and Community Liaison Service, Justice Health (formerly
Corrections Heath Service) in NSW.
Date:
Monday 9 August 2004. Time: 5.30 - 7.30pm
Venue: Assembly Hall, Level 4 (street level), Sydney
University Law School, 173-175 Phillip Street, Sydney |
Indigenous
Women and Imprisonment: Issues in Corrections and Post-Release
(Monday 3 November 2003)
A public seminar in the Beyond Punishment series, engaging
in critical debate about prisons, community programs and
related issues. Co-sponsored by the NSW Department of
Corrective Services.
(papers are now available from this
seminar) Speakers:
Rowena Lawrie, Aboriginal Justice Advisory Committee
Janis Constable, Research Officer, Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Unit Human
Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission
Pat Maurer, Department of Corrective Services
Robynne Quiggin, consultant, Jumbunna Indigenous
House of Learning, UTS
Chair:
Hal Wootten, AC QC, a former Royal Commissioner
into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
Date:
Monday 3 November 2003. Time: 5.30 - 7.30pm
Venue: Assembly Hall, Level 4 (street level),
Sydney University Law School, 173-175 Phillip Street,
Sydney |
'Rethinking the Prison: Risk,
Performance and Modernisation'
A public seminar
in the Beyond Punishment series, engaging in critical
debate about prisons, community programs and related issues,
co-sponsored by the NSW Department of Corrective Services.
Speakers:
Dr Alison Liebling, Lecturer and Director
of the Prisons Research Centre,
Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University
Rethinking Prison Performance: Values and Quality
in Prison Life
Professor Pat Carlen, Honorary Professor of
Criminology, Keele University
Risk and Responsibility in Women's Prisons
Date: Monday 29 September
2003, Time: 5.30 - 7.30pm.
Venue: Assembly Hall, Level 4 (street level), Sydney
University Law School, 173-175 Phillip Street, Sydney
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'Rehabilitate
or Perish: The Role and Efficacy of Prison Programs
and Treatment Models'
(papers
are available from this seminar)
(Thursday June 12)
A public seminar in the Beyond Punishment series,
engaging in critical debate about prisons, community
programs and related issues, co-sponsored by the NSW
Department of Corrective Services.
Chair:
Luke Grant, Assistant Commissioner, Offender Management,
NSW Department of Corrective Services
Speakers:
Professor
Mark Findlay, Institute of Criminology, Sydney
University Law School
"The Demise
of Corrections Fifteen Years on: Any Hope for a
Progressive Punishment Paradigm?"
Will Hutchins, Prisoner's Legal Service,
Legal Aid Commission of NSW
"We've gotta get out of this place"
Mindy Sotiri, Transition Worker, CRC Justice
Support and PhD on imprisonment in NSW
Professor Kevin Howells, Professor of Forensic
Psychology, Division of Education, Arts and Social
Sciences, School of Psychology, University of South
Australia
"Implementing
offender treatment programs in Australia:
Some future challenges"
Date: June 12 2003, Time: 5.30 - 7.30pm.
Venue: Assembly Hall, Level 4 (street level),
Sydney University Law School, 173-175 Phillip Street,
Sydney
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This
seminar aimed to analyse the significance of accommodation
options on pre-release planning, post-release support
and programming for offenders in the community. The forum
will also address issues such as: the criminalisation
of homelessness; post release support services; crime
prevention for homeless people; and homelessness protocols.
Date: Wednesday 19 June, 2002
(papers are available for this seminar) |
Previous
Seminars and Events |
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A
complete list of previous seminars is available.
Previous seminar topics include: women's human rights; Juvenile
Justice; Mental Health and the Criminal Justice System; Refugees
and Race; Homelessness and Criminal Justice; Truth & Reconciliation;
Ethnicity & Crime and the Use of DNA in the Criminal Justice
System.
Papers
are available for many of these seminars.
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