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 This two day conference challenged some of the myths underpinning the law and order debate and explored alternative approaches to criminal justice and sentencing.
Key themes included:
- the role of crime-related fear in elections
- trends in civil liberties and police powers
- targeting of cultural groups and age groups
- trends in imprisonment in NSW
- conditions in NSW prisons
- alternative approaches to sentencing
Conference Papers
Where a conference paper has been provided by the speaker it is available for download as a PDF document. Click on the name of the paper/speaker and it will open in your Acrobat Reader application and/or save to your disk.
- Trends in imprisonment
Dr Eileen Baldry, School of Social Work, UNSW
(63kb pdf document)
- Hepatitis C in prison
Stuart Loveday, Hepatitis C Council
(142kb pdf document)
- Inquiry on the increase in prisoner population
John Ryan, MLC, NSW Legislative Council
(40kb pdf document)
- People with Intellectual Disabilities and the criminal justice system
Helena O'Connel, Council for Intellectual Disability
(132kb pdf document)
- Diversionary options
Jenny Bargen, Director, Youth Justice Conferencing, Department of Juvenile Justice
(190kb pdf document)
- Women inmates
Dr Anne Sefton, Director of Women's Health, Corrections Health Service
(65kb pdf document)
- Conditions in prisons
Luke Grant, Assistant Commissioner, Inmate Management, NSW Department of Corrective Services
(340kb pdf document)
- Stir It Up, Illawarra Lesbian Speaker Series
Carina Hickling, NSW Attorney Generals Department
(55kb pdf document)
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