September 2020

ICOPA 18 – London 2018

OVERVIEWAbout 400 activists, academics and ex-prisoners participated in the ICOPA 18 conference based at Birkbeck campus of the University of London. It was hosted by the Department of Criminology Birkbeck University of London, Harm and Evidence Research Collaborative, the Open University, and the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies. Other participating organisations were the Action

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ICOPA History

The International Conference on Penal Abolition written by the late Ruth Morris. Rittenhouse, Canada 1997 The modern abolition movement has roots in European criminologists promoting abolition, and American (mostly Quaker) abolitionists. Fay Honey Knopp’s group in the USA produced a landmark book called Instead of Prisons. This group and this book helped infect Canadians with the

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High Court Upholds Consorting Laws – Tajjour v New South Wales

The High Court recently held that the consorting provisions in sections 93X and 93Y of the Crimes Act 1900 (NSW) were constitutionally valid. This case note analyses the Court’s decision. Building on our submission to the Ombudsman, it argues that the decision of the Court is apt to creat confusion surrounding the offence, and fails

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Enrolment To Vote

Report: Enrolment to Votein Prisons and Hospitals 2016 Executive Summary Justice Action has undertaken a series of enquiries into the processes currently in place to ensure all people in prisons and forensic hospitals are enrolled to vote. From these enquiries, it has been established that Electoral Commissions across all the Australian states and territories, as

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Prisoners denied vote

Media release: Wednesday May 25, 2016 “Most people in prisons and locked hospitals across Australia are eligible to vote but won’t be participating in the 2016 Federal Election. Last week in several NSW jails not one person surveyed had been given information about enrolment” said Justice Action Coordinator Brett Collins. “Their right to vote was

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