Armstrong, K., Baldry, E & Chartrand, V. 2007 Human Rights Abuses & Discrimination against Women in the Criminal Justice System in NSW. Australian Journal of Human Rights 12(2): 203-228

Baldry, E. 2007 Recidivism and the role of social factors post-release. Precedent 81:4-7.

CURRENT & RECENTLY COMPLETED PROJECTS

• Needs analysis on Aboriginal Women with Dependent Children leaving prison in NSW
  
  
• An evaluation of Prison Fellowship support for children of imprisoned parents
  
  
• Pathways people with mental health disorders and cognitive disability take through the criminal justice and other human service agency systems.
  
  
• The Prison Project, with colleagues from UNSW Law and Melbourne Uni.
  
  

• Stock-take on Juvenile Justice in NSW 1996-2006, completed for the NSW Juvenile Justice Advisory Council
  
  

• Evaluation of the PCYC Mobile Van Unit Hot Spot Program, with CHD Partners
  
  

• Crime Profile for Sydney City Council, with CHD Partners
  

Jan Breckenridge
Faculty of Law, UNSW

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Breckenridge J. and James, K. (in print) The Socio-legal Relationship and Social Work Intervention in Child Sexual Abuse in Swain P. and Swain, S. (eds.) Social Work and the Law ,Third Revised Edition, The Federation Press: Sydney.

Breckenridge, J. and Mulroney, J. (2007) Leaving Violent relationships and avoiding homelessness – providing a choice for women and children in NSW Public Health Bulletin Volume 18(5-6)

Breckenridge, J. and Ralfs, C., (2006) Point of Contact Front-Line Workers Responding to Children Living with domestic Violence in Humphreys, C. and Stanley, N. Domestic Violence and Child Protection – Directions for Good Practice  Jessica Kingsley Publishers: London pp 110-123.

Baldry, E, Bratel, J. and Breckenridge, J. (2006) Domestic Violence and Children with Disabilities: Working Towards Enhancing Social Work Practice in Australian Social Work Vol.59, No, 2 June pp185-197.

Breckenridge, J. (2006) Speaking of Mothers…How Does the Literature Portray Mothers Who Have a History of Child Sexual Abuse? In Journal of child Sexual Abuse Volume 15, Number 2 pp 57-74.

CURRENT & RECENTLY COMPLETED PROJECTS

• Australian Domestic and Family Violence Clearinghouse
  
  
• ‘Are the needs of adult survivors of child abuse with drug and alcohol problems and co-morbid mental health concerns being met, and is there a role for community based organisations in addressing these needs?’ in partnership with Advocates for Survivors of Child Abuse.
  
  

Brown, D. ‘Giving Voice: The Prisoner and Discursive Citizenship’ in T Anthony and C Cunneen (eds) The Critical Criminology Companion Hawkins Press, Sydney (2008).

Brown, D, ‘Recurring themes in contemporary criminal justice developments and debates’ in J Tolmie and W Brookbanks (eds) Criminal Justice in New  Zealand,  LexisNexis in Wellington, (2007)

Brown, D and Gray, J. ‘Devils and dust’: extending the ‘uncivil politics of law and order’ to the ‘war on terror’ in J Hocking and C Lewis (eds) Counter-Terrorism and the Post-Democratic State (2007) Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK. (2007).

Brown, D. ‘Foreword’ to Dot Goulding, Recapturing Freedom, The Federation Press: Sydney (2007)  v-vi.

Brown, D. ‘The disenfranchisement of prisoners: Roach v Electoral Commissioner & Anor’,  (2007) Alternative Law Journal 32:3 September 132-137.

Brown, D. “Waiting for Snicko”, (2007) ALTLJ Vol 32:4 Dec p243, 249.

Brown, D. “Critical Penology, Prisoners and Citizenship: in the genre of gonzo –a road trip to the cauldron for the Roach case”, (2007) Current Issues in Criminal Justice Vol 19(2) Nov, 224-234.

Brown, D., Farrier, D., Egger, S., McNamara, L. and Steel, A. (2006) (4th edn) Criminal Laws: Materials and Commentary on Criminal Law and Process in NSW, The Federation Press, Sydney.

Chan, J 2006, 'I am, we are...' Law/Text/Culture, vol. Special Issue 'The Trouble with Pictures (forthcoming)

Chan, J 2007, 'Police stress and occupational culture' in M. O'Neill and M. Marks (eds) Police Occupational Culture: New Debates and Directions. Elsevier (forthcoming)

Chan, J 2007, 'Making sense of police reform' Theoretical Criminology (forthcoming)

Cossins, A (2007) ‘Men, Masculinity and Child Sexual Abuse’ in M. Kiter Edwards, L, O'Toole and J. Schiffman (eds) Gender Violence: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 2nd edition, New York Press: New York.

Cossins, A. (2008) “Restorative Justice and Child Sex Offences: The Theory and the Practice”, British Journal of Criminology, 48: 359-378.

Cossins, A. (2008) “Children, Sexual Abuse and Suggestibility: What Laypeople Think They Know and What the Literature Tells Us”, Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 15: 153-170.

• Addressing Violence and Sexual Assault in Indigenous Communities - The Best Ways Forward (with Chris Cunneen)

• Addressing Misconceptions in Child Sexual Assault Trials: A Mock Jury Study (with Jane Delahunty)

• Alternative models for the prosecution of child sexual assault cases in Australia
  
  
• The analytic utility of concepts of gender and sex for understanding criminal activity
  
  
• Gender and race in the sexual assault trial
  
  
• Recidivism of child sex offenders
  
  
• Reform of sexual assault evidence and procedure laws
  

Cunneen, C. (2006) ‘The Effects of Colonial Policy: Genocide, Racism and Aboriginal People in Australia’ in Prum, M., Deschamps, B. and M-C. Barbier (eds) Racial, Ethnic, and Homophobic Violence: Killing in the Name of Otherness, Routledge-Cavendish, London. ISBN: 9781904385578

Gary Edmond, ‘Secrets of the “hot tub”: Expert witnesses, concurrent evidence and judge-led law reform in Australia’ (2008) 27 Civil Justice Quarterly 51-82.

Gary Edmond, ‘Expert Evidence’, in Oxford Companion to Law (Oxford, Oxford University Press 2008).

Gary Edmond, ‘Supersizing Daubert: Science for litigation and its implications for legal practice and scientific research’ (2007) 52 Villanova Law Review 857-924.

Gary Edmond and David Mercer, ‘Anti-Social Epistemologies’ (2006) 36 Social Studies of Science 843-853.

Gary Edmond, ‘Disorder with law: The determination of the geographical indication for the Coonawarra wine region’ (2006) 28 Adelaide Law Review 59-183.

Goldie, C. 'Using the Law and Human Rights to Challenge Injustice for People who are Homeless' in Amy Horton-Newell (ed), Lawyers Working to End Homelessness (American Bar Association, 2006) 33

A Lynch, ‘Exceptionalism, politics and liberty: a response to Professor Tushnet from the Antipodes’ (2008) 3 International Journal of Law in Context pp.305-12;

A Lynch, E MacDonald and G Williams (eds), Law & Liberty in the War on Terror, Federation Press, Sydney, 2007, 252 pages;

‘Achieving Security, Respecting Rights and Maintaining the Rule of Law’ in A Lynch, E MacDonald and G Williams (eds), Law & Liberty in the War on Terror, Federation Press, Sydney, 2007, pp.222-33;

A Lynch, ‘Should Australia’s Muslim Communities really be concerned about Anti-Terrorism Laws?’ (2007) 16(2) Human Rights Defender pp.7-9;

A Lynch and A Reilly, ‘The Constitutional Validity of Terrorism Orders of Control And Preventative  Detention’ (2007) 10 Flinders Journal of Law Reform pp.105-142;

A Lynch, “Legislating with Urgency – The Enactment of the Anti-Terrorism Act [No 1] 2005” (2006) 31 Melbourne University Law Review pp.747-781;

A Lynch, ‘Security and Human Rights’ edited by Benjamin J Goold and Liora Lazarus, Hart Publishing 2007. Reviewed in (2008) 10 Constitutional Law and Policy Review pp.51-56;

A Lynch, ‘Maximising the Drama: ‘Jihad Jack’, the Court of Appeal and the Australian Media’ (2006) 27 Adelaide Law Review pp.311-34;

What Price security? Taking Stock of Australia’s Anti-Terrorism Laws (2006) UNSW Press (with G. Williams)

Helen Pringle
School of Social Sciences and International Studies

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Pringle, H. "Just Love: Levinas, Law and Love", in Practicing Levinas, ed. Laurence F. Bove and Laura Duhan-Kaplan (forthcoming)

Pringle, H. "Walter Roth and Ethno-Pornography", in The Roth Family, Anthropology and Colonial Administration, ed. Russell McDougall and Iain Davidson (London: Cavendish Publishing Limited, UCL Press, in press 2008)

Pringle, H. "Abortion", in The Oxford Companion to Australian Politics, ed. Brian Galligan and Winsome Roberts (Oxford University Press, 2007)

Pringle, H. and Asher Joel. Australian Protocol & Procedures, 3rd ed. (Sydney: UNSW Press, 2007)

"Urban mythology: The Question of Abortion in Parliament", Australasian Parliamentary Review, xxii, 2 (Spring 2007), pp. 5-22.

Pringle, H. "'Whether or not man was capable of offending Ens entrum': Taking blasphemy seriously", in Negotiating the Sacred: Blasphemy and Sacrilege in a Multicultural Society, ed. Elizabeth Coleman and Kevin White (Canberra: ANU Press, 2006)

Pringle, H. "Abortion and Disability: Reforming the Law in South Australia", University of New South Wales Law Journal, 29, 2 (2006), pp. 207-21

Alex Steel
Faculty of Law, UNSW

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Brown, Farrier, Egger, McNamara and Steel: Criminal Laws: Materials and commentary on criminal law and process in NSW (4th ed) 2006

Permanent Borrowing and Lending: A New View of s6 Theft Act 1968 (2008) 17 Nottingham Law Journal 3
General Fraud Offences in Australia, University of New South Wales Faculty of Law Research Series (2007)
Money for Nothing, Cheques for Free? The Meaning of ‘Financial Advantage’ in Fraud Offences,  (2007) 31 Melbourne University Law Review 201

CURRENT & RECENTLY COMPLETED PROJECTS

• Australian Prisons Research Project (ARC Discovery Grant with C. Cunneen, D. Brown, E. Baldry and M. Brown)
  
  
• Reform of theft and fraud offences
  
  
• Comparative approaches to dishonesty offences
  
  
• Identity fraud and computer-related crime
  
  
  

Weatherburn, D. How much crime does prison stop? The incapacitation effect of prison on burglary, Weatherburn, D., Hua, J. & Moffatt, S., Crime and Justice Bulletin 93, 2006, NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, Sydney.

Weber, L. (forthcoming). "Policing the Virtual Border: Punitive Preemption in Australian Offshore Migration Controls." forthcoming in 2008 in Social Justice (Special Issue on Transnational Criminology)

Weber, L and Lee, M. (2008) 'Fear, Terror, and the Politics of Preemption' in Lee and Farrell (Eds) The Age of Anxiety: Critical Voices in the Fear of Crime Debates, Routledge-Cavendish, Oxford.

Weber, L. and Bowling, B. (2008) 'Valiant beggars and global vagabonds: select, eject, immobilise', Theoretical Criminology 12(3); 355-376, Special Issue on Globalization, Ethnicity and Racism.

Wilson, D. and Weber, L. (2008) 'Surveillance, risk and preemption on the Australian border', Surveillance and Society, 5(2) Special Issue on Smart Borders & Enclosures.

Weber, L. 2007 ‘Bridges or bandaids? Another death in police custody reveals fatal flaws in the Aboriginal Liaison Officer concept’, Current Issues in Criminal Justice (Contemporary Comment), 19(2); 235-242

Pickering, S. and Weber, L. (eds) (2006) Borders, Mobility and Technologies of Control, Springer, 222 pages, ISBN-10:1-4020-4898-X, ISBN-13:978-1-4020-4898-2

Weber, L. (2006) ‘The shifting frontiers of migration control’, in Pickering, S. and Weber, L. (Eds) Borders, Mobility and Technologies of Control, Springer, Dordrecht.

CURRENT & RECENTLY COMPLETED PROJECTS

• Charters of rights
  
  
• Electoral law
  
  
• Federalism
  
  
• The High Court
  
  
• Terrorism and law