Journal articles: 'Victoria. Dept. of Justice'

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Jessup, Brad. "Trajectories of Environmental Justice: From Histories to Futures and the Victorian Environmental Justice Agenda." Victoria University Law and Justice Journal 7, no. 1 (June 11, 2018): 48–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.15209/vulj.v7i1.1043.

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Before the last state election, the current Victorian government promised from opposition to develop an Environmental Justice Plan if elected. It acknowledged international best practice as a benchmark for such a plan, though it did not recognise the legacy of environmental justice activism and scholarship locally. With the plan still in progress, this article considers the global histories and future directions of environmental justice and a literature-based framework for curating a Victorian plan. It breaks with the common understanding, including that held by government bureaucrats in Victoria, of environmental justice emerging from the United States in the 1980s. The article situates Victoria within that past, the current and future of the concept of environmental justice. Two notable recent legal events affirm the need for, and suggest the shape of, a Victorian environmental justice approach – the housing estate gas leak in outer suburban Melbourne and the Hazelwood coal mine fire in regional Victoria.

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van Moorst, Elsje, and Kate Deverall. "Justice For All: Women's Access To Legal Aid And Justice In Victoria." Australian Feminist Law Journal 1, no. 1 (January 1993): 147–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13200968.1993.11077114.

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Jordan, Lucinda, and James Farrell. "Juvenile Justice Diversion in Victoria: A Blank Canvas?" Current Issues in Criminal Justice 24, no. 3 (March 2013): 419–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10345329.2013.12035969.

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Revilla, Anita Tijerna. "Inmensa Fe en la Victoria: Social Justice through Education." Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 24, no. 2 (2004): 282–301. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/fro.2004.0003.

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Antolak-Saper, Natalia. "The Adultification of the Youth Justice System: The Victorian Experience." Law in Context. A Socio-legal Journal 37, no. 1 (November 24, 2020): 99–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.26826/law-in-context.v37i1.118.

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In early 2018, an Inquiry into Youth Justice Centres in Victoria (Inquiry) found that a combination of a punitive approach to youth justice, inadequate crime strategies, and a lack of appropriately trained and experienced staff at youth justice centres, greatly contributed to the hindrance of the rehabilitation of young persons in detention in Victoria, Australia. In addition to identifying these challenges, the Inquiry also determined that the way in which young offenders have been described by politicians and portrayed in the media in recent times, has had a significant impact on shaping youth justice policies and practices. This article specifically examines the role of the media in the adultification of the Victorian youth justice system. It begins with a historical examination of youth justice, drawing on the welfare model and the justice model. This is followed by a discussion of the perception and reality of youth offending in Victoria. Here, it is demonstrated that through framing, the media represents heightened levels of youth offending and suggests that only a ‘tough on crime’ approach can curb such offending; an approach that has been adopted by the Victorian State Government in recent years. Finally, the article considers how recent youth justice reforms are examples of adultification, and by not adequately distinguishing between a child and adult offender, these reforms are inconsistent with the best interests of the child.

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Beatrice, Megan. "A problem-solving approach to criminalised women in the Australian context." Alternative Law Journal 46, no. 1 (January 24, 2021): 41–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1037969x20985104.

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The upward trend of incarceration rates persists among women in Victoria, with increasingly punitive sentencing and onerous new bail laws. At the same time, the complex needs of women in the criminal justice system are becoming the focus of greater study and documentation. This article presents the case for a specialist women’s list under the Magistrates’ Court of Victoria jurisdiction, based in principles of therapeutic jurisprudence and procedural justice. While the list aims to reduce offending by addressing criminogenic factors unique to women, the picture is far bigger; the Victorian Women’s Court ultimately promotes justice for women who commit crimes.

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Battams, Samantha, Toni Delany-Crowe, Matt Fisher, Lester Wright, Anthea Krieg, Dennis McDermott, and Fran Baum. "Applying Crime Prevention and Health Promotion Frameworks to the Problem of High Incarceration Rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Populations: Lessons from a Case Study from Victoria." International Indigenous Policy Journal 12, no. 2 (May 14, 2021): 1–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.18584/iipj.2021.12.2.10208.

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This article examines what kinds of policy reforms are required to reduce incarceration rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people through a case study of policy in the Australian state of Victoria. This state provides a good example of a jurisdiction with policies focused upon, and developed in partnership with, Aboriginal communities in Victoria, but which despite this has steadily increasing incarceration rates of Indigenous people. The case study consisted of a qualitative analysis of two key justice sector policies focused upon the Indigenous community in Victoria and interviews with key justice sector staff. Case study results are analysed in terms of primary, secondary, and tertiary crime prevention; the social determinants of Indigenous health; and recommended actions from the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion. Finally, recommendations are made for future justice sector policies and approaches that may help to reduce the high levels of incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

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Edwards, Anne, and Melanie Heenan. "Rape Trials in Victoria: Gender, Socio-cultural Factors and Justice*." Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology 27, no. 3 (December 1994): 213–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000486589402700301.

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The criminal law with respect to rape continues to be a major focus of academic, feminist and community attention. Since the 1970s a number of reforms have been introduced into the statutes and procedures relating to the definition of rape and the conduct of rape cases in the courts. This paper reports on the results of a 1990 Melbourne study, involving first-hand observation and systematic written recording of the entire court proceedings in six rape trials. The intention was to examine the role extra-legal socio-cultural factors play in the presentation and interpretation of accounts given in court and the influence they have on the outcomes. The analysis explores in detail the influence of the following: use of physical force and resistance; alcohol; the victim's social, moral and particularly sexual character, and her relationship with the accused.

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Beyer, Lorraine, Gary Reid, and Nick Crofts. "Ethnic Based Differences in Drug Offending." Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology 34, no. 2 (August 2001): 169–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000486580103400205.

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There is a perception in Victoria that some ethnic groups are more heavily involved in illicit drugs than others. The published police and prison statistics appear to support this view. The paper discusses why published statistics show an increase in drug offending by people of Vietnamese birth, describes some of the outcomes of current criminal justice responses to the illicit drug problem in Victoria, and identifies differing offending patterns between drug offenders of “Asian” and “non-Asian” backgrounds. Court and Juvenile Justice key informants’ perceptions of the reasons young “Asian” people become involved with heroin is also briefly discussed.

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Mackay, Michael. "Aboriginal juveniles and the criminal justice system: The case of Victoria." Children Australia 21, no. 3 (1996): 11–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1035077200007161.

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In the light of continuing concern about the high level of involvement of Aboriginal people in the criminal justice system, this article examines the 1993/94 police data for Victoria. The focus is on juvenile ‘alleged offenders processed’. The data shows contact commencing early and a continuing high level of contact with the system, especially for young Aboriginal males. Although there has been a reduction in the over-representation ratio of Aboriginal juveniles in juvenile corrective institutions, the difference in rates at all points in the system compared to non-Aboriginal youth is substantial.Longer-term consequences including the likelihood of adult incarceration are serious and the need for more research and action is clearly signalled.

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Richardson, I. L. M. "Courts and Access to Justice." Victoria University of Wellington Law Review 31, no. 1 (April 3, 2000): 163. http://dx.doi.org/10.26686/vuwlr.v31i1.5976.

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(This article was presented as a lecture at the Australasian Law Teachers' Association Conference held at Victoria University of Wellington, 6 July 1999.) Ensuring access to justice is one of the most basic functions of the state. The author discusses the role and functioning of the Court of Appeal, the operation of the legal aid system in New Zealand, and the extent to which the operations of the court system should be open to the public. It is argued that any system of justice should reflect the values of its society. The author concludes that what is thought desirable in these three areas will change over time, and that there will always be a need for fine-tuning in light of societal values.

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Cooke, Robin. "Tribute to Dr James Williams." Victoria University of Wellington Law Review 30, no. 2 (June 1, 1999): 385. http://dx.doi.org/10.26686/vuwlr.v30i2.6003.

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A memorial service was held at Victoria University to honour the life and work of Dr JamesWilliams, former Professor of English and New Zealand Law, Principal and then first Vice-Chancellor of the Victoria University of Wellington, who died suddenly at his home in Sydney on Monday, 12 January 1976.Mr Justice Cooke spoke of Dr Williams and his contribution to the law.

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Tapia, Ruby C. "Profane Illuminations: The Gendered Problematics of Critical Carceral Visualities." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 123, no. 3 (May 2008): 684–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2008.123.3.684.

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Since 1978, the population of women prisoners in the united states has increased by four hundred percent. The number of women now living and dying in cells exceeds 200,000 (United States Dept. of Justice). They are without access to proper health care, without the children that many of them will lose permanently: they are without. These are stark details, obscene in their materiality. They are facts, but they are not the picture. The picture is impossible. Indeed, the picture is the problem.

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McCallum, David, and Jennifer Laurence. "Has Welfarist Criminology Failed? Juvenile Justice and the Human Sciences in Victoria." Australian Social Work 60, no. 4 (December 2007): 410–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03124070701323865.

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Suzuki, Masahiro, and William R. Wood. "Co-option, coercion and compromise: challenges of restorative justice in Victoria, Australia." Contemporary Justice Review 20, no. 2 (April 2, 2017): 274–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10282580.2017.1311194.

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Sakai, Kikuo, Kozo Watanabe, and Ronald W. Millard. "Defining the mechanical border zone: a study in the pig heart." American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology 249, no. 6 (December 1, 1985): H1232—s—H1232—s. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/ajpheart.1985.249.6.h1232-s.

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Page H88: Kikuo Sakai, Kozo Watanabe, and Ronald W. Millard. “Defining the mechanical border zone: a study in the pig heart.” Page H94: the acknowledgments were omitted and are as follows. We are grateful to Dr. Arnold Schwartz, Dept. of Pharmacology and Cell Biophysics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, and Dr. Mootomi Nakamura, Angiocardiology and Cardiovascular Clinic, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, for their support and encouragement. The expert technical assistance of Victoria Rapien and John Erickson was invaluable. This study was supported in part by Grant P01-HL-22619 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Preliminary findings of this study were first reported at the Annual Scientific Session of the American Heart Association held at Anaheim, CA, November 1983. An abstract of this work has appeared ( Circulation 68, Suppl. III: 194, 1983).

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Douglas, Roger, Kathy Laster, and Nicole Inglis. "Victims of Efficiency: Tracking Victim Impact Information through the System in Victoria, Australia." International Review of Victimology 3, no. 1-2 (January 1994): 95–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/026975809400300207.

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The courts of summary jurisdiction in Victoria have recently streamlined procedures for the hearing of guilty pleas: sentencing decisions are now determined largely on the basis of a brief summary of ‘facts’ presented by the prosecution. To assess the extent to which these summaries detail the harm suffered by victims we analysed 276 assault case summaries. The data indicate that summaries rarely report details of victim injury even where this information had been gathered by police. However, the data also suggest that disclosing details of victim injury makes little difference to sentencing and other decisions. This article outlines how existing procedures have allowed information about victims to ‘get lost’ in the system. It argues that demands for reform of the criminal justice system to give greater attention to the interests of victims must take into account the system's commitment to administrative rationalism and technocratic justice. Systematising police summaries in the mention court may prove to be a practical way of reconciling the concerns of victims with the organisational priorities of criminal justice agencies.

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Goddard, Christopher R. "Victoria's Protective services and the ‘Interim’ Fogarty Report: Is This the Right Road at Last?" Children Australia 15, no. 1 (1990): 12–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1035077200002546.

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The history of the provision of child protection services in Victoria, and the lack thereof, is a long and complex one. Yet another twist in the tale occurred recently.A report by Mr Justice Fogarty and Mrs Delys Sargeant, entitled Protective Services for Children in Victoria: An Interim Report, was released in January 1989. This report (hereinafter the Fogarty Report) was commissioned by the Victorian Government in August 1988:“… to inquire into and advise it upon the operation of Victoria's child protection system and on measures to improve its effectiveness and efficiency.”

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Chen, Bruce. "The Human Rights Act 2019 (Qld): Some perspectives from Victoria." Alternative Law Journal 45, no. 1 (January 14, 2020): 4–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1037969x19899661.

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The Human Rights Act 2019 (Qld) is modelled on Victoria’s dialogue model for human rights protection, the Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities Act 2006 (Vic). This article provides a Victorian perspective on the operative provisions of Queensland’s Human Rights Act, particularly those which bind public entities, courts and tribunals when applying legislation (sections 13, 48, 58 and 59). The potential impacts of amendments by the Act to the Corrective Services Act 2006 (Qld) and Youth Justice Act 1992 (Qld) are also considered.

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Gutman, Judy. "The Reality of Non-Adversarial Justice: Principles and Practice." Deakin Law Review 14, no. 1 (August 1, 2009): 29. http://dx.doi.org/10.21153/dlr2009vol14no1art130.

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The growth, development and institutionalisation of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) processes in Australia have paved the way for a changing legal culture. Whilst the adversarial process underpins the Australian legal system, the theory and practice of ADR has allowed a broadening of attitudes towards conflict resolution. In Victoria, collaborative rather than adversarial approaches to justice have been put into practice in ‘problem-solving courts’. This development evidences an institutional shift from adversarial justice towards the greater inclusion of non-adversarial dispute resolution processes. Contemporary best practice lawyering demands recognition and acceptance of this change. Legal educators and regulators must also act on the new reality of lawyering.

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Murat, Dilek, Serpil Aytac, and Julian Bondy. "Workplace Wellbeing Among Justice Department Staff." Australian and New Zealand Journal of Organisational Psychology 4 (April 1, 2011): 20–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1375/ajop.4.1.20.

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AbstractThe aim of this study is to determine the factors that affect the wellbeing at work of a particular group within the Victorian public sector: those who are directly responsible for the delivery of justice to offenders, namely corrections officers. Corrections staff, as front-line workers in the corrections system, have an important role in the rehabilitation and reintegration of offenders. The study is based on data from The People Matter Survey 2005 that sought to measure Victorian public sector employees' perceptions of how well the public sector values and employment principles were applied within their organisations. In this study we used data from 230 employees from Corrections Victoria who participated in the survey and used multilinear regression to analyse the factors affecting the level of workplace wellbeing. This study found that the most important factors affecting workplace wellbeing of the workers are Fair and Reasonable Treatment (FRT), Accountability (AC), and Senior Management (SM). Other findings included that the levels of workplace wellbeing of bullied or harassed staff was less than non-bullied or harassed staff.

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Tan, Vivi. "Online Dispute Resolution for Small Civil Claims in Victoria: A New Paradigm in Civil Justice." Deakin Law Review 24 (August 30, 2019): 101–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.21153/dlr2019vol24no1art873.

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This article seeks to explore some of the implications of integrating information and communications technology into judicial processes to resolve small civil claims. It argues that, as ODR moves from individual private-sector initiatives to widespread public sector institutionalisation, governance and value questions will need to be seriously considered. This is because questions regarding the appropriateness of the use of certain ODR systems in the resolution of small claims and consumer disputes persist, especially in relation to the use of systems which are fully autonomous. For example, how are fundamental due process requirements to be balanced against the economic constraints of resolving low value disputes? What are the limits to the evolution of civil justice to make it more accessible? It is argued that, while ODR holds vast potential for increasing access to justice, attention needs to be given to the dispute system design to ensure that it achieves that goal and does not result in the erosion of fundamental values of civil justice, including accessibility, transparency, legal validity and accountability.

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Palmer, Matthew SR. "Impressions of Life and Law on the High Court Bench." Victoria University of Wellington Law Review 49, no. 3 (November 1, 2018): 297. http://dx.doi.org/10.26686/vuwlr.v49i3.5326.

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The following is a public lecture given at Victoria University of Wellington on 27 March 2018, organised by the New Zealand Centre for Public Law. In it Justice Matthew Palmer compares his impressions of life and law on the High Court Bench with that in practice and in academia.

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Collett, Brent, and Nicola Henry. "Water justice: exploring the social dimensions of new irrigation technologies in northern Victoria, Australia." Water Policy 16, S2 (November 1, 2014): 155–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wp.2014.102.

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Water resource management is one of the most pressing human and environmental challenges of the 21st century. Technological approaches to improving the management of water feature prominently, with technology positioned as the solution to issues of competing interests and the achievement of water savings. This paper analyses the social dimensions of a regional-level irrigation technology, examining the piloting of Total Channel Control™ technology in northern Victoria, Australia, as a case study. Water savings, organisational efficiency, on-demand ordering, occupational health and safety improvements, and many other benefits were anticipated to flow from this ‘world first’ technology. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with stakeholders and participant observation of an irrigation committee, this paper examines stakeholder accounts regarding piloting of the technology. We argue that in order to achieve justice and fairness in implementing regional irrigation technology, three essential criteria must be met: genuine consultation, participation and negotiation; responsive and respectful dialogue and communication; and mutual information exchange. As society shifts towards greater reliance on technological intervention to solve some of the most pressing dilemmas of the modern era, a more holistic approach focusing on the complexity of human interaction with the technology is vital.

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O’Brien, Wendy, and Kate Fitz-Gibbon. "Can Human Rights Standards Counter Australia’s Punitive Youth Justice Practices?" International Journal of Children’s Rights 26, no. 2 (May 3, 2018): 197–227. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15718182-02602004.

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Recent practices in the administration of youth justice across Australian state and territory jurisdictions reveal a powerful tension between the punitive imperative of “tough on crime” political populism, and internationally agreed minimum standards relevant to the treatment of children. In questioning the extent to which human rights standards can and should be used as a useful tool to counter punitive youth justice practices, this article identifies major points of discrepancy between Australia’s international legal obligations and the doctrine and operation of domestic criminal law as it applies to children in conflict with the law. Examining youth justice “crises” in two Australian states, the Northern Territory and Victoria, the article concludes that while child rights are not directly justiciable in Australia, global standards on youth justice provide a unifying discourse that is resistant to the vagaries of populism, and which can guide reform for child rights compliant youth justice legislation and practice.

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Corcoran, Tim, Julie White, Kitty te Riele, Alison Baker, and Philippa Moylan. "Psychosocial justice for students in custody." Journal of Psychosocial Studies 12, no. 1 (July 1, 2019): 41–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/147867319x15608718110899.

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Availability to quality education is significantly beneficial to the life prospects of young people. In particular, for young people caught up in the justice system, it is argued that involvement in education reduces risk of further criminality and improves a person’s prospects for future community engagement. This paper overviews a recent study undertaken in the Australian state of Victoria. The study worked with project partner, Parkville College, the government school operating inside the state’s two detention centres, to examine what supports and hinders education for students in custody. Amongst other purposes, education should be about the pursuit of justice and if accepted as an ontological opportunity, education can invite the pursuit of a particular kind of justice ‐ psychosocial justice. Subsequently, psychosocial theory applied to educational practice in youth detention is inextricably linked to issues concerning justice, both for how theory is invoked and ways in which practice is enacted. The paper first introduces the concept of psychosocial justice then hears from staff connected to Parkville College regarding issues and concerns related to their work. As shown, education for incarcerated young people, not just in Australia but internationally, is enhanced by contributions from psychosocial studies providing a means to pursuing justice informed by a politics of psychosocialism.

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Schermuly, Allegra Clare, and Helen Forbes-Mewett. "Police legitimacy: perspectives of migrants and non-migrants in Australia." Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice 5, no. 1 (February 28, 2019): 50–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jcrpp-08-2018-0025.

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Purpose This paper is drawn from a larger study investigating community perceptions of police legitimacy in the Monash Local Government Area (LGA), in the Australian state of Victoria. Monash had seen declining results in the official government survey in the indicators that assessed police legitimacy over the preceding decade. The purpose of this paper is to explore the perceptions of both migrant and non-migrant participants to understand the role of migrant status in influencing assessments of police legitimacy in Monash LGA. Design/methodology/approach Through six focus groups, 18 interviews and one e-mail response with 31 individuals, perceptions of Victoria Police among the communities of Monash were collated and analysed. Findings One of the key findings of the study was that ethnic diversity and/or migrant status of community members were a key factor raised in response to questions about community perceptions of the legitimacy of Victoria Police in Monash LGA. Demographic change had been significant in Monash LGA over the preceding decade, including increasing ethnic diversity in the population and a shift in migration patterns from predominantly European to migrants from East and South Asia. In this paper, the authors suggest that the migrant status of Monash residents was a key factor that both migrant and non-migrant participants thought influenced perceptions of the police. Accordingly, because migrants make up a significant cohort of Australia’s population, we afford due attention to this previously overlooked topic. Practical implications The practical implications of this paper are as follows: existing Victoria Police partnerships in the Monash community should be continued and expanded where possible; Victoria Police should also prioritise partnerships with large, new migrant communities, for example, Monash’s Chinese communities; orientation for new migrants to Victoria around the criminal justice system, including Victoria Police, would help new migrants be more aware of their rights and what to expect of law enforcement in their new host country; police should continue to increase representation of ethnic diversity in the force via recruitment of greater numbers of ethnically diverse police members. Originality/value Although there have been previous Australian studies on migrant status as a factor in perceptions of criminal justice (see Murphy and Cherney, 2011, 2012; Hong Chui and Kwok-Yin Cheng, 2014), the paper identifies a distinct narrative around migrants’ views of Victoria Police which the authors believe warrant further investigation using an example from a local context. Furthermore, most research in this field has been quantitative. The current study provides additional new insights through an in-depth qualitative approach.

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Fitz-Gibbon, Kate, and Wendy O'Brien. "A Child’s Capacity to Commit Crime: Examining the Operation of Doli Incapax in Victoria (Australia)." International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy 8, no. 1 (February 19, 2019): 18–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.v8i1.1047.

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The rebuttable presumption of doli incapax is available in all Australian states and territories and provides that, where a child is unable to comprehend the distinction between actions that are ‘seriously wrong’ and those that are ‘naughty or mischievous’, they cannot be held criminally responsible for their actions. Despite the key role that doli incapax should play in diverting the youngest offenders away from the criminal justice system, its operation to date has been largely unexamined. This article seeks to directly address this gap. Drawing on the experiences of those involved in all aspects of the youth justice system, this article examines the need for, and the effectiveness of, the presumption of doli incapax in Victoria, Australia. Revealing inconsistencies in the use of the presumption, the article also examines the need for future reform of this area of law.

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McCallum, David. "‘Merging’ the Aboriginal population: Welfare, justice, power and the separation of Aboriginal children in Victoria." Health Sociology Review 15, no. 1 (April 2006): 29–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.5172/hesr.2006.15.1.29.

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Young, Alison. "‘Stay Safe, Stay Home’: Spatial Justice in the Pandemic City." Legalities 1, no. 1 (March 2021): 19–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/legal.2021.0005.

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How does spatial justice take place within cities? To understand spatial justice within a city under lockdown, this article considers both the ‘corporeal emplacements’ within spaces identified by Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos (2015) and the ‘material geographies’ ( Soja 2010 ) essential to understanding spatial justice in everyday life in contemporary cities. Several of the material localities arising during the ‘stay home’ orders of the State of Emergency in Victoria are considered; namely, first, the shared spaces of the street visited by individuals on their permitted forays from home; second, the domestic space of the home; third, the spaces occupied by or allocated to those who lack stable housing; and, finally, hotel rooms, used during the pandemic to house people experiencing homelessness, returned travellers in quarantine, and evacuated detainees. Close examination of such places reveals fault lines of social stratification, linguistic and representational boundary lines regulating their governance, and the stakes of seeking to achieve spatial justice in the pandemic city.

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Coverdale, Richard. "Postcode Justice: Rural and Regional Disadvantage in the Administration of the Law." Deakin Law Review 16, no. 1 (August 1, 2011): 155. http://dx.doi.org/10.21153/dlr2011vol16no1art98.

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The paper signposts a number of issues identified within the research project: Postcode Justice — Rural and Regional Disadvantage in the Administration of the Law. It highlights key areas in which regional Victorians experience disadvantage in access to justice system services in comparison to their metropolitan counterparts. Issues raised by interviewees and survey participants demonstrate inherent problems with the current delivery of justice system services, programs and processes in regional Victoria. Briefly explored within the paper is the relationship of ‘distance’ to the delivery of justice. The paper suggests that little consideration is given to the spatial disadvantage experienced by regional communities in the development of legislation or the implementation of justice system programs, practices and procedures. The paper also examines the Magistrates’ Court criminal court programs which embrace the principles of ‘problem solving courts’ and ‘therapeutic jurisprudence’. While they are important innovations, these programs have had limited roll-out to regional communities. In its conclusion the paper suggests that an independent and unified ‘voice’ is needed to ensure a genuine and informed response to the diverse areas in which inequity exists in the delivery of justice system services to regional communities.

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Hall, Budd L., Baptiste Godrie, and Isabel Heck. "Knowledge Democracy and Epistemic In/Justice: Reflections on a Conversation." Canadian Journal of Action Research 21, no. 1 (November 30, 2020): 27–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.33524/cjar.v21i1.516.

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The focus of the article is on how knowledge is created, who creates knowledge, how knowledge is co-constructed, whose knowledge is excluded and how knowledge is being used to challenge inequalities and strengthen social movement capacity. This article grew from a fascinating conversation that the three of us had in Montreal in September of 2019. We decided to share our stories about knowledge and justice with a wider audience in part as a way for us to reflect further on the meaning of our initial conversation, but also to invite others into the discussion. Baptiste Godrie works in a research centre (CREMIS) affiliated with Quebec’s health care and social services system, Isabel Heck works with the anti-poverty organization Parole d’excluEs, both affiliated to universities, and Budd Hall works at the University of Victoria and is the Co-Chair of the UNESCO Chair in Community-Based research and social responsibility in higher education.

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Colvin, Emma. "Postcode (in)justice: location and bail support services." Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice 5, no. 4 (November 21, 2019): 307–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jcrpp-01-2019-0002.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of location on access to justice for vulnerable defendants seeking bail. Design/methodology/approach Qualitative interviews were conducted with legal practitioners from rural, suburban and urban areas as part of a larger study into bail support services in Victoria, Australia. Findings Interview participants identified a dearth of bail support resources in rural, regional and remote (RRR) areas compared to their urban counterparts. This dearth impacted negatively on some defendants’ outcomes in the justice system, particularly for young people and those experiencing homelessness. Practical implications This study helps in improving policy through greater understanding of issues with RRR service provision; adds to knowledge for service providers on access to justice; highlights specific areas of concern for vulnerable populations; and provides a more nuanced understanding of location-based issues. Originality/value This research found that resourcing issues cannot be understood simply through an RRR/urban binary and that more complex factors impacting access to justice and access to services for vulnerable people should be incorporated into future analysis and policy development. This more nuanced understanding is useful across national and international contexts when developing policies to improve bail support service provision.

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Baines, Margaret, and Christine Alder. "Are Girls More Difficult to Work With? Youth Workers' Perspectives in Juvenile Justice and Related Areas." Crime & Delinquency 42, no. 3 (July 1996): 467–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0011128796042003008.

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This research explored the frequently heard, but virtually unexamined, comment in juvenile justice practice that “girls are more difficult to work with.” The qualitative methodology entailed interviews with youth workers in juvenile justice and related programs in Victoria, Australia. Virtually all interviewees concurred with the judgment. Explanations were in terms of perceived differences in the complexity of the problems involved and in the behavior of young men and women. The relatively small number of young women affected both the extent of workers' experiences with and the range of services available to young women. The degree to which workers' assessments reflected gendered assumptions, or actual differences in behavior, could not be determined by this research. Nevertheless, the extent and intensity of this understanding revealed in this research indicates the need for further research so that its potential ramifications can be identified and addressed in juvenile justice policy developments.

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Camilleri, Margaret. "Disabled in rural Victoria: Exploring the intersection of victimisation, disability and rurality on access to justice." International Journal of Rural Criminology 5, no. 1 (2019): 88–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.18061/1811/88727.

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Rosenberg, Scott. "'The Justice of Queen Victoria': Boer Oppression, and the Emergence of a National Identity in Lesotho." National Identities 3, no. 2 (July 2001): 133–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14608940120059443.

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Mendes, Philip. "Social conservatism vs social justice: the portrayal of child abuse in the press in Victoria, Australia." Child Abuse Review 9, no. 1 (January 2000): 49–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/(sici)1099-0852(200001/02)9:1<49::aid-car572>3.0.co;2-8.

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Purbrick, Martin. "Crime, Justice and Punishment in Colonial Hong Kong: Central Police Station, Central Magistracy, and Victoria Gaol." Asian Affairs 52, no. 3 (May 27, 2021): 783–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03068374.2021.1960679.

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McDonald, Paul. "Through the wall: An address to practitioners at a forum on the Working Together Strategy." Children Australia 25, no. 1 (2000): 27–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1035077200009585.

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This address was given at a forum in November J999 for practitioners in the juvenile justice, alcohol and drug, mental health and child protection services in Victoria as part of the Department of Human Services’ Working Together Strategy’ (WTS). The WTS is a quality improvement initiative of the DHS in partnership with adolescent mental health and drug treatment service providers.WTS provides an organisational framework for the Community Care Division, the Aged, Community and Mental Health Division and the Public Health Division (specifically in reference to the mental health, child protection and care, juvenile justice and drug treatment services programs) to achieve better outcomes for shared clients. WTS is a response to perceived deficits in cross-program collaboration and communication in cases involving high need adolescent clients.

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Flynn, Asher. "'Fortunately We in Victoria Are Not in That UK Situation': Australian and United Kingdom Perspectives on Plea Bargaining Reform." Deakin Law Review 16, no. 2 (December 1, 2011): 361. http://dx.doi.org/10.21153/dlr2011vol16no2art107.

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The polarisation between consistency, controls and the unscrutinised discretionary powers held by criminal justice agencies is a complex issue that transcends jurisdictions. In the Australian State of Victoria, this conflict is particularly evident in the prosecutor’s decision-making powers in the plea bargaining process, because these powers are not subject to scrutiny and the decisions made under them are not transparent. Furthermore, plea bargaining itself is a non-formalised and unscrutinised method of case resolution. While the use of discretion is an important component of prosecutorial work, it is the potentially individualised and idiosyncratic nature of unscrutinised discretionary decisions that results in plea bargaining and prosecutorial decision-making in Victoria giving rise to perceptions of inappropriateness and misconduct. Drawing upon the voices of Victorian and United Kingdom legal professionals, this article critically analyses the controls placed on United Kingdom prosecutors by the Attorney General’s Guidelines on the Acceptance of Pleas and the Prosecutor’s Role in the Sentencing Exercise 2009 (UK), and considers whether similar guidelines could be implemented in Victoria to redress problems surrounding the idiosyncratic nature of prosecutorial decision-making in plea bargaining. By offering a unique insight into the perspectives of those involved in plea bargaining, this article explores the benefits of implementing a transparent and scrutinised control on prosecutorial discretion in plea bargaining, and considers whether this would in turn offer greater safeguards, consistency and transparency of prosecutorial decision-making in Victoria.

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Kõvamees, Anneli. "Variations on a Motive: Hamsun and Tammsaare." Interlitteraria 23, no. 2 (January 3, 2019): 354–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/il.2018.23.2.11.

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In 1935 Ma armastasin sakslast (I Loved a German) was published. In 1928 Victoria (1898) by Knut Hamsun (1859–1952) was published in Estonian. The first was written and the second translated by A. H. Tammsaare (1878– 1940). Parallels between these two authors have been most often discussed in connection with Pan (1894) and Kõrboja peremees (The Master of Kõrboja, 1922). Both authors have earned their canonical position in literature thanks to the novels Markens Grøde (Growth of the Soil) (1917), in the case of Hamsun, and Tõde ja õigus (Truth and Justice, I–V, 1926–1933) in the case of Tammsaare. These novels have been “sorted out” to be included in the canon, while Ma armastasin sakslast and Victoria have not received as much attention. In both novels love is the central theme – in Hamsun’s novel the main characters are the miller’s son Johannes and the landlord’s daughter Victoria, and in Tammsaare’s novel the student Oskar and a baron’s grand daughter, Erika. This article examines the connections between Hamsun and Tammsaare by analysing the novels Victoria and Ma armastasin sakslast, discussing among others the motive that has been widely used in world literature, namely the (archetypical) story of lovers – Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare. Both novels can be considered as variations on that motive as Tammsaare, for example, adds the social aspect, so that the archetypical love story set in the Republic of Estonia enables him to discuss topics essential to him. In the article the main emphasis is on Tammsaare’s novel.

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O'Malley, Pat, Garry Coventry, and Reece Walters. "Victoria's “Day in Prison Program”: An Evaluation and Critique." Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology 26, no. 2 (December 1993): 171–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000486589302600206.

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The use of “Day in Prison” programs to deter young adult offenders is a concept which originated in the United States and was replicated in Australia during the late 1970s. After almost a decade of uncertainty this model of ‘crime prevention’ re-emerged in Victoria with the introduction of a pilot “Day in Prison” program. This article traces the development and operation of the Victorian experience and provides evaluation research findings which conclude that coercive, intimidatory and degrading aversion techniques should not be utilised by the criminal justice system for the purposes of individual deterrence.

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Naylor, Bronwyn, and Danielle Tyson. "Reforming Defences to Homicide in Victoria: Another Attempt to Address the Gender Question." International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy 6, no. 3 (September 1, 2017): 72–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.v6i3.414.

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In 2005 in the Australian state of Victoria, significant changes were made to the defences to homicide. These reforms were in response to long standing concerns about the gendered operation of provocation and self-defence by feminist researchers and advocates, Law Reform Commissions, the media and political pressures. This paper critically examines the reforms and the extent to which they have addressed these varied concerns and interests. The paper argues that these important law reforms have challenged some of the powerful narratives being used in the courts that minimise the existence and significance of family violence in intimate relationships. We see this particularly in judicial sentencing remarks. However, law reform must be accompanied by a shift in legal culture to be effective in practice. To this end, we argue that legal professionals need to have information about how to utilise the new family violence provisions as well as ongoing training and professional development to promote consistent understandings of family violence across the criminal justice system.

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Larcombe, Wendy, Bianca Fileborn, Anastasia Powell, Nicola Henry, and Natalia Hanley. "Reforming the Legal Definition of Rape in Victoria - What Do Stakeholders Think?" QUT Law Review 15, no. 2 (December 17, 2015): 30. http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/qutlr.v15i2.635.

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Internationally and in Australia, rape law reforms in recent decades have had mixed outcomes. As a result, when the Victorian government began consulting on another round of major reforms in this area, the authors designed a qualitative research project to investigate whether a proposed change to the definition of rape is likely to clarify and simplify the law, as intended. This article draws on a series of semi-structured interviews with stakeholders who have extensive practice- or research-based expertise in criminal justice processing of rape cases. We analyse their perceptions and interpretations of a proposed definition of rape, which would require an absence of ‘reasonable belief’ in consent, and explore potential impacts and limits of this reform. Given that the investigated reform proposal has now been adopted, and will come into effect in July 2015, our findings provide unique insight into stakeholders’ expectations of this latest reform of rape law in Victoria. Our findings suggest that this reform, like a number of its predecessors, may struggle to achieve its policy objectives.

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Coward, Harold. "The contribution of religious studies to public policy." Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 28, no. 4 (December 1999): 489–502. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000842989902800405.

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What contribution can Religious Studies make to public policy in Canada and internationally? This article suggests a significant contribution can be made by taking a new approach—one that is correlational, interdisciplinary and builds bridges between the university and the community. Our narrow and less challenging Religious Studies departmental ways must be imaginatively stretched into new patterns. A theoretical approach is sketched and practical examples are given from studies at the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society, University of Victoria, in the areas of "Population, consumption and the environment," "Healthcare ethics," "Ethics and Canadian fisheries" and "Restorative justice."

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Baidawi, Susan, and Rosemary Sheehan. "Maltreatment and Delinquency: Examining the Contexts of Offending Amongst Child Protection-Involved Children." British Journal of Social Work 50, no. 7 (October 14, 2019): 2191–211. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcz113.

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Abstract Child protection-involved children experience disproportionately high criminal justice system contact, yet little is known about the circumstances in which such children offend. This study sought to identify the contexts in which this group of children offend and factors associated with children being charged in each context. A mixed-methods analysis of Children’s Court case files was conducted utilising a cross-sectional sample of 300 children who came before three Children’s Criminal Courts in Victoria, Australia, and who also had statutory Child Protection involvement. Three key contexts of offending were identified: adolescent family violence (AFV), residential care-based offending and group-based offending. A total of 33 per cent of children had engaged in AFV (23 per cent had AFV-related charges), 36 per cent of children ever placed in residential care acquired charges relating to their behaviour in these settings, while 44 per cent of children had engaged in group-based offending. More than one-third of children (38 per cent) also had criminal charges stemming from justice system interactions (e.g. resisting arrest). Children’s cumulative neurodevelopmental, mental health and substance abuse challenges correlated with offending in each context. Strategies to reduce youth justice contact amongst child protection-involved children should consider systems responses to AFV and behavioural challenges in residential care.

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Grimshaw, Patricia. "“That we may obtain our religious liberty…”: Aboriginal Women, Faith and Rights in Early Twentieth Century Victoria, Australia*." Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 19, no. 2 (July 23, 2009): 24–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/037747ar.

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Abstract The paper, focused on a few years at the end of the First World War, explores the request of a group of Aborigines in the Australian state of Victoria for freedom of religion. Given that the colony and now state of Victoria had been a stronghold of liberalism, the need for Indigenous Victorians to petition for the removal of outside restrictions on their religious beliefs or practices might seem surprising indeed. But with a Pentecostal revival in train on the mission stations to which many Aborigines were confined, members of the government agency, the Board for the Protection of the Aborigines, preferred the decorum of mainstream Protestant church services to potentially unsettling expressions of charismatic and experiential spirituality. The circumstances surrounding the revivalists’ resistance to the restriction of Aboriginal Christians’ choice of religious expression offer insight into the intersections of faith and gender within the historically created relations of power in this colonial site. Though the revival was extinguished, it stood as a notable instance of Indigenous Victorian women deploying the language of Christian human rights to assert the claims to just treatment and social justice that would characterize later successful Indigenous activism.

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King, Michael. "Out of obscurity: The contemporary private investigator in Australia." International Journal of Police Science & Management 22, no. 3 (June 23, 2020): 285–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461355720931887.

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The business of private investigation has grown significantly in the past two decades. No longer can private investigating be considered an obscure form of private policing. Yet, despite the recent growth of interest in private policing, little research has been conducted on the services provided by private investigators. This article presents the results of an analysis of 33 in-depth interviews with Australian private investigators in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria. The article discusses their contemporary role in the context of providing justice, public policing and future regulatory challenges. The article extends the limited research on the services private investigators provide, including corporate fraud and financial investigations, risk advisory, and cyber and misconduct investigations. It identifies their backgrounds and education, and describes their clients. The study found that, contrary to expectations, to meet these new services, private investigators are now highly qualified academically and professionally. It was found that regulatory gaps have been created in the licensing of contemporary private investigators, and the use of private investigators allows clients to sidestep the justice system.

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D., Manjunath B., Avinash K., Abdul Razack G. S., Harindranath H. R., Ashwath V. H., Mohammed Arafath Ali, and Kavya T. "The role of pre operative serum LDH and D-dimers in predicting intestinal necrosis." International Surgery Journal 6, no. 6 (May 28, 2019): 2139. http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2349-2902.isj20192381.

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Background: To study the role of serum LDH and D-Dimers in predicting intestinal necrosis, to correlate with bowel viability preoperatively and to determine the aetiology for intestinal necrosis due to Mesenteric Ischaemia or any other causes.Methods: A prospective study conducted in 100 patients admitted in the Dept of General Surgery, Victoria Hospital, Bangalore Medical College for a period of one year.Results: In our study out of 100 patients 44 patients had elevated serum LDH which is 44% and among those 44 patients, 39 patients found to have bowel gangrene which is about 88%. Out of 100 patients 9 patients had elevated D-dimer levels which are 9% and among those 9 patients, 6 were suspected of mesenteric ischaemia and all patients had bowel gangrene which 100%.Conclusions: The pre operative estimation of serum LDH levels in patients presenting with features of acute abdomen helps in identifying the patients with risk of intestinal ischemia and gangrene at the earliest, facilitating early intervention and helping in reduction of morbidity and mortality due to bowel gangrene. Detection of serum D-dimer could not help to differentiate patient with mesenteric ischaemia from those with other causes of bowel necrosis but certainly all cases of mesenteric ischaemia had elevated D-dimer levels. The application of serum LDH and D-dimers in acute abdomen or suspected cases of bowel necrosis will give an important clue regarding the pathology and severity of the disease.

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Richmond, Maurice. "Lawyers and the Public." Victoria University of Wellington Law Review 30, no. 2 (June 1, 1999): 341. http://dx.doi.org/10.26686/vuwlr.v30i2.5981.

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The substance of this paper was delivered as a public lecture at the Victoria University College, Wellington, New Zealand. It was one of a series of public lectures given by professors and lecturers at that College to mixed audiences. The author, Lecturer (and later Professor) in Law, challenges the notion that "the legal profession is a parasite infesting in the community, and ought to be extirpated" by exploring the true function of a lawyer. It is argued that the duty of the lawyer is to protect and enforce justice by serving their function as officers of the Courts of New Zealand, and that the profession will continue as long as there remains injustice in the world.

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