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Suzanne Visser
Jul 7, 20234 min read
Crime in Alice Springs - Trauma 4
NGOs and government organisations do not reach the youth on the street sufficiently Multiple services may surround offenders in Alice...
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Suzanne Visser
Jul 1, 20236 min read
Crime in Alice Springs - Trauma - part 3: Volatile situations and victim trauma
Trauma caused by the law and law enforcement The Dylan Voller case illustrates the trauma that law and law enforcement cause offenders....
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Suzanne Visser
Jun 24, 20239 min read
Crime in Alice Springs - Trauma
Offenders’ intergenerational trauma Michael Halloran states in Cultural Maintenance and Trauma in Indigenous Australia that one effect of...
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Suzanne Visser
Jun 17, 20233 min read
The relationship between harm and juvenile detention
According to the Office of the Children’s Commissioner in the Northern Territory’s Annual Report 2020-2021, harm to children in detention...
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Suzanne Visser
Jun 10, 20233 min read
Trauma
Trauma is no longer a subject discussed only by experts. Books about trauma have now become number-one bestsellers. In recent years, Dr...
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Suzanne Visser
Jun 3, 20233 min read
All-white juries
Regarding more serious crimes, the Zachary Rolfe case in 2021 has hammered home the fact that all-white juries are a problem in the...
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Suzanne Visser
May 31, 20231 min read
$2.7 billion in youth crime alone: A sustainable justice think-tank seems called for
Since there are several areas of law to consider when thinking about sustainable justice, a sustainable justice think-tank seems called...
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Suzanne Visser
May 20, 20231 min read
Revolving-door justice
It is not because of a lack of expert recommendations that the Northern Territory justice system suffers from revolving-door justice that...
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Suzanne Visser
May 6, 20233 min read
The impact of irrelevant factors on judicial decisions
Magistrates are exposed to an endless line being processed through the justice system and although they must be stoic, this must have an...
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Suzanne Visser
Apr 29, 20231 min read
Mandatory sentencing
Zac Grieve received the harshest punishment of all offenders: twenty years in prison without parole. In his case, the combination of...
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Suzanne Visser
Apr 22, 20232 min read
Silence and gratuitous concurrence in legal proceedings
When police apprehend one offender of a group offence, this person must assist the police in finding the others. Aboriginal people are...
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Suzanne Visser
Apr 15, 20234 min read
The laws of complicity
The laws of complicity are triggered by crimes committed by groups and are highly complex. These laws have been criticized heavily for...
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Suzanne Visser
Apr 7, 20233 min read
The age of criminal responsibility & the best interest of the child.
Dr Mick Creati, paediatrician and spokesperson for the Royal Australia College of Physicians, said in an interview with SBS News in 2020:...
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Suzanne Visser
Apr 1, 20233 min read
The division between criminal law and civil law
In civil law cases, an offender is being sued by a victim and must pay damages or otherwise make right the harm done; the plaintiff must...
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Suzanne Visser
Mar 26, 20233 min read
Problems within the law
The following chapter describes problems found in the literature concerning the law as it touches the lives of people in the Northern...
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Suzanne Visser
Mar 19, 20232 min read
Signalling: Naming & shaming on social media and prison architecture
The right to humane treatment in detention requires that offenders be treated with dignity. This right complements the prohibition on...
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Suzanne Visser
Mar 11, 20231 min read
Belief in quick fixes
Richard Mendel, in What Works in the Prevention of Youth Crime, shows that, as a quick fix, short-term shock incarceration such as boot...
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Suzanne Visser
Mar 5, 20232 min read
Hunger for revenge and punishment
Judgements of blame are not always based on a rational and balanced assessment of free will, as the law presumes. We decide how much...
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Suzanne Visser
Mar 4, 20231 min read
Eastern philosophy and free will
Chinese perspectives on free will by Marchal and Wenzel and free will and freedom in Indian philosophies (by Chakrabarti provide good...
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Suzanne Visser
Feb 27, 20232 min read
Libertarianism was popular in the 20th century
Someone suggested, in reaction to the last blog, that a life's work should be criticized as no longer relevant. I therefore expand: David...
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