Latest News Peak Body’s Concerns Ignored Regarding Victims Bill Contents What is a Victim? Victims of Crime The Case of Andrew Garforth Politicising Grief Role of Victims in Sentencing and Security Classification Conclusion Overall, allowing community vitriol to be directed at prisoners like Andrew Garforth distracts from society’s compassion for victims and their families, and does […]
More police, greater powers, less paperwork? We often hear people in the media saying that more police on the beat will decrease crime: ‘we need more police, we need police doing less paper work; police need more powers’. However, the police already hold substantial powers. The 1997 Wood Royal Commission into the New South Wales
Overview Crime, justice, and the media have long been intertwined. This is because crime constitutes a fertile ground for news production accounting for 35% of news produced daily. It is widely accepted that ideas, images, and narratives that dominate the media have a definitive impact on public opinion.1 The power of the media is unrivalled and
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