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Suzanne Visser
Nov 26, 20234 min read
Trauma among the police
The Kumanjayi Walker shooting, the trial that followed and the coronial inquest that followed the trial has hammered home the need to...
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Suzanne Visser
Nov 19, 20236 min read
(Vicarious) trauma in lawyers and magistrates
Lawyers experience very high levels of vicarious trauma and trauma. Even without prior trauma, contact with legal processes is stressful....
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Suzanne Visser
Nov 11, 20232 min read
Trauma in prison workers
Prison guards in Alice Springs walked off the job in July 2022 following similar industrial action in Darwin. United Workers Union NT’s...
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Suzanne Visser
Nov 8, 20238 min read
Post-traumatic street disorder
Victim Trauma American research has identified gang-impacted communities as populations susceptible to PTSD or “post-traumatic street...
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Suzanne Visser
Oct 27, 20232 min read
Cultural trauma causes inter-generational and personal trauma
Cultural trauma causes personal trauma as a response to the shattering events that caused the cultural trauma. It is so persistent and...
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Suzanne Visser
Oct 21, 20234 min read
Cultural trauma
It is safe to say that most offenders in Alice Springs are the victims of cultural trauma. Culture suppresses anxieties,...
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Suzanne Visser
Oct 15, 20233 min read
Trauma
“The Indigenous kids I work with are powerless and voiceless. They are currently legally represented by the North Australian Aboriginal...
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Suzanne Visser
Oct 8, 20232 min read
Complicity
Accessories to a crime, as Zac Grieve was, are found in the context of gangs and crowd violence, but also in the context of crimes that...
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Suzanne Visser
Oct 1, 20236 min read
Mandatory sentencing
Let us return to the Zac Grieve case. I recap what it is about: Four people, Grieve, Malyschko, Halfpenny and Buttery, planned the...
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Suzanne Visser
Sep 24, 20231 min read
The division between criminal law and civil law
The concept of Anglo-American criminal law has evolved over a thousand years, responding to new knowledge about the origins of human...
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Suzanne Visser
Sep 17, 20233 min read
The white elephant - Problems within the law
This and the next few blogs will discuss various problems within the law when it comes to youth crime. The concept of mens rea and free...
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Suzanne Visser
Sep 9, 20233 min read
The Zachary Rolfe Case
The Rolfe case is a good example of how volatile situations can become in the Northern Territory. In 2019 in Yuendumu, 19-year-old...
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Suzanne Visser
Sep 2, 20236 min read
The Zak Grieve and Dylan Voller Cases
The Zak Grieve case illustrates how the combination of mandatory sentencing and the laws of complicity cause unequal justice and put...
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Suzanne Visser
Aug 27, 20234 min read
The punishment of humans
Bizarre law enforcement practices and courts are not restricted to inanimate things, trees and animals. Museums all over Europe bear...
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Suzanne Visser
Aug 19, 20232 min read
Blameworthiness; a thought experiments
The history of bizarre practices in the previous blog, which is, in fact, about blameworthiness, concludes with a thought experiment...
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Suzanne Visser
Aug 12, 20237 min read
How we think about crime
This blog post presents the reader with an overview of bizarre practices in courts throughout the centuries. It then looks at three...
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Suzanne Visser
Aug 5, 20233 min read
A Normal Life
The arts in prison The healing properties of the arts and sports have long been recognised in Alice Springs. They cause the town to be...
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Suzanne Visser
Jul 30, 20237 min read
Animals as therapists in prisons
Norwegian and Icelandic Correctional Services use the normality principle. No one serves their sentence under stricter circumstances than...
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Suzanne Visser
Jul 22, 20233 min read
A public-health issue
In September 1999, the Australian Institute of Criminology ran a round-table seminar on Public Health Perspectives on Interpersonal...
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Suzanne Visser
Jul 14, 20232 min read
Sustainable justice
Disability in offenders Research by the Australian Brain Injury Organisation shows that: “issues relating to non-disclosure,...
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