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all information about seminars at the Institute please
contact Contact
Rachel Miller on 02 9351 0239 or r.miller@usyd.edu.au
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Issues in Criminal Justice.
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Upcoming
Seminars
Our
seminar program for 2009 already looks like being
our most exciting and stimulating yet. To celebrate
our move in February to new quarters and new seminar
rooms we will be hosting some illustrious international
and Australian speakers as part of the Law Faculty's
Distinguished Speakers Series later in the year.
We will also continue old partnerships as well as
forming new ones to present workshops and seminars
on cutting edge issues.
Recent
Seminars
Thinking
thief, thinking designer - designing out crime from
places and products
The
Sydney Institute of Criminology at the University of
Sydney in conjunction with CHD
Partners and SJB Architects
present a seminar by:Professor
Paul Ekblom, Associate Director, Design Against Crime
Research Centre, Central Saint Martins College of Art
and Design
Faculty of Law, 173 Phillip St Sydney
4pm Friday 5th December 2008
Paul Ekblom
read psychology and gained his PhD at University College
London. As a researcher in the UK Home Office for many
years, Paul worked on the full range of crime prevention
projects; also horizon-scanning; Design against Crime
and developing the professional discipline and knowledge
management of crime prevention. Paul has worked internationally
with EU Crime Prevention Network, Europol, UN and Council
of Europe. He is currently Professor and Co-Director
of the University of the Arts London Research Centre
on Design Against Crime, based at Central Saint Martins
College of Art and Design. Here, he works on design
and evaluation of products, places, systems and communications
as well as continuing to develop practical conceptual
frameworks for general crime prevention.
Masculinities
and Crime
Professor
Kerry Carrington
is Acting Head of the School of Behavioural, Cognitive
and Social Sciences at the University of New England.
Among her broad research interests are juvenile justice,
youth culture and female delinquency, crime and violence
in rural Australia, and a range of social policy issues.
Dr
Michael Flood is a Research Fellow
at La Trobe University, funded by the Victorian Health
Promotion Foundation (VicHealth). He conducts research
on violence prevention, men and gender, male heterosexuality,
fathering, and sexual and reproductive health, and
has published on how to engage men in violence prevention,
best practice in primary prevention, and factors shaping
violence-supportive attitudes.
For decades
criminology neglected the relationship between masculinity
and crime – why was it that men were responsible
for the bulk of officially recorded crimes, and especially
violent crimes? There has been an increasing body
of criminological literature on masculinities and
crime in recent times but there is still significant
work to be done in assessing the dimensions of masculinities
and crime in a range of settings. This seminar will
consider questions of masculinity and violence and
will examine the potential for preventing male violence.
Decriminalising
Physician-Assisted Suicide
Professor
Stanley Yeo, National University of Singapore
Monday
25 August 5:30pm
The
principal contention of this seminar is that people
suffering from a terminal illness causing intolerable
pain (including emotional pain) should be given
a choice to decide where, when and how to die.
Since voluntary euthanasia remains highly controversial,
the next best measure is to decriminalise physician-assisted
suicide under certain strict conditions. The seminar
will utilise the laws of India and Oregon to bring
out the issues and concerns arising from this
proposal, which will provide the platform upon
which to discuss the position in Australia.
About
Professor Yeo:
During
his academic career spanning 27 years, Professor
Yeo has taught in Australia, Canada, Japan and
Singapore and published extensively in the fields
of criminal law and criminal justice. In 2003,
Professor Yeo was awarded a Doctor of Laws by
Sydney University for his substantial contribution
to legal scholarship in the area of criminal defences
in the common law world. After being co-General
Editor of the Criminal Law Journal for many years,
Professor Yeo has been appointed Chief Editor
of the Singapore Journal of Legal Studies from
January 2008.
Held
at University of Sydney Law School
173-175 Phillip Street, Sydney
Minter Ellison Room, Level 13
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Recent
Seminar in the Beyond Punishment Series:
Beyond
Punishment: Measuring Efficiency:
A
seminar in the Beyond Punishment Series presented
in association with the NSW Department of
Corrective Services.
Speakers
Luke Grant MSc Assistant
Commissioner, Offender Services and Programs
NSW Department of Corrective Services: Luke
Grant was appointed Assistant Commissioner,
Offender Services and Programs in June 2006
prior to which he was Assistant Commissioner
Offender Management. Mr Grant has held a number
of positions in the Department in the areas
of inmate classification, programs and education
and comes from a background in tertiary education.
The Assistant Commissioner Offender Services
and Programs is responsible for offender services
and programs in custody and in the community
including Corrective Services Industries and
inmate classification and case management.
Dr Don Weatherburn, FASSA
Director, NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and
Research.Dr Don Weatherburn has been Director
of the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and
Research in Sydney since 1988 and is an Adjunct
Professor with the School of Social Science
and Policy at the University of New South
Wales.
Emeritus Professor David Brown,
University of New South Wales: David Brown
is Emeritus Professor at the University of
NSW, where he taught criminal law, criminal
justice, criminology and penology from 1974
to 2008. He has been active in criminal justice
movements, issues and debates for over three
decades and is a regular media commentator.
He has co-authored or co-edited The Prison
Struggle (1982); The Judgments of Lionel Murphy
(1986); Death in the Hands of the State (1988);
Criminal Laws in four editions (1990); (1996);
(2001); (2006); Rethinking Law and Order (1998);
Prisoners as Citizens (2002); and The New
Punitiveness (2005).
Dr. Mindy Sotiri BSW, PhD,
Board Member of the Community Restorative
Centre (CRC) Dr. Mindy Sotiri BSW, PhD, (UNSW)
has worked as a social worker and researcher
in the criminal justice system for over ten
years. She currently serves on the board of
the Community Restorative Centre (CRC) and
is a founding member of the Beyond Bars Alliance.
Her doctorate completed in 2002 examined the
purpose of imprisonment in NSW.
The
total number of inmates held in NSW correctional
facilities has, like prison populations on
a global scale, increased over the past three
decades. Amongst other factors increases in
recorded crime rates throughout the 1970s
and 1980s resulted in an increased global
willingness to imprison those deemed a threat.
More
recently interest has been shown in measuring
the efficiency of correctional programs and
how this might reduce rates of offending overall.
The current NSW State Plan includes targets
of a 10% reduction in reoffending by 2016.
This seminar discusses the ways in which measures
of success (or failure) in correctional environments
are currently, and might best be, assessed.
Wednesday
12 November 2008, 5.30pm – 7.30pm Download
Flyer here
'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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Understanding the Significance of Sentencing
in International Criminal Justice
Speaker:
Professor Ralph Henham
Professor of Criminal Justice
at Nottingham Law School,
Nottingham Trent University UK
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February 2008 5.30pm
The
idea that international sentencing might be instrumental
in helping to promote reconciliation and peace in societies
ravaged by war or social conflict is superficially attractive.
However, beyond the political rhetoric of international
relations it is difficult to visualise exactly what
this might mean, except in purely abstract terms. The
problem stems from the fact that our perceptions of
'international criminal justice' are relative and contextual,
so that it appears futile to argue that it has some
kind of instrumental force having significance at both
the international and local level. However, this is
exactly what we, as individuals and citizens, are led
to believe. The structures purporting to deliver 'international
criminal justice' and the values it represents are depicted
as universally relevant and its outcomes applicable
wherever international crimes are alleged to have been
committed, irrespective of context.
In
order to deconstruct this myth Professor Henham highlights
some of the problems which afflict sentencing in international
criminal trials, and goes on to suggest that there are
several obstacles which appear to hamper the notion
that 'international penality' as currently conceived
might be viewed as an instrumental force for achieving
'justice'. This evaluation acts as a precursor to a
tentative analysis of its ability to function as an
elemental component of international criminal justice
governance, especially in terms of its capacity to fulfil
the mandate of achieving 'justice' so often attributed
to it.
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