The Balance between Mental Health and Public Health in Australian Prisons

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  • 27 May 2020
COVID-19 and Mental Health COVID-19 has undoubtedly changed the way of life for many individuals across the word, as people have been told to self-isolate. As a result, mental health and wellbe

How Cyberspace Enables Fraud and Extortion: Catfishing

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  • 26 May 2020
Love, Money and Extortion The rapid expansion of social media has become an integral part in everyday life for the majority of the Australians. Social media norms have evolved from solely conne

The Crime of Genocide and Australia’s First Peoples

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  • 21 May 2020
There are four crimes within the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court. These crimes include crimes against humanity, war crimes, the crime of aggression and genocide. Article 6 of the R

The dying presumption of innocence – Part 2

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  • 19 May 2020
Many of us can find comfort in the thought that our society is one that believes in a person’s innocence until proven guilty. It is a presumption in our legal system. When charged with any cr

Wrongful convictions and an honest but mistaken witness

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  • 13 May 2020
Imagine of being accused of something horrible you didn’t do. Of your friends and family hearing that you have been charged with something terrible. Imagine going to prison knowing you are co

Australian Prisons, alternatives to imprisonment and their success

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  • 30 April 2020
Our Convict History As machines replaced manual labour, some of the unemployed people that could did move to the cities. As the cities became overcrowded, many didn’t and couldn’t g

Dangerous driving, imprisonment and the purposes of sentencing

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  • 16 April 2020
On the 2nd of March 2019, John Pagakis drove his car over 210kms/hour. When leaving the M2 at Baulkham Hills, Mr Pagakis lost control of the vehicle and crashed into an SUV that was stopped at a re

Coronavirus and the NSW Local and District Courts

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  • 07 April 2020
A pandemic that has crippled the world killing over 74,000 people worldwide according to John Hopkins University of Medicine Coronavirus Research Centre. The total number of confirmed cases (of tho

Using the phone whilst driving?

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  • 25 February 2020
The recent introduction of phone cameras in NSW highlights the Government’s desire to get people off their mobile phones whilst behind the wheel. Whilst many people give into the temptation t

Should drugs be legal in Australia?

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  • 21 February 2020
A question that has been around for decades with obvious advantages and disadvantages on each side. Making drugs legal would hurt the black market, would likely result in higher purity of the subst
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