The fifth edition of The Criminal Process continues in the tradition of previous editions in
providing an insightful and stimulating analysis of the key issues in criminal processes and …

The critics assert that a significant proportion of incarcerated individuals suffers from mental
health issues, ie 'the criminalization hypothesis.'The current paper reviews the scholarly …

Society's responsibility to protect children from harm as prescribed by the UN Convention on
the Rights of the Child raises complex questions about the fundamental rights of both …

Restorative justice occupies an important place in criminological literature and criminal
justice policies and is about facilitating communication between victims, offenders and …

In this article, we start from internationally developed models explaining growing
punitiveness and increasing imprisonment rates, to analyse the penal situation within …

In problem-solving courts judges are no longer neutral arbitrators in adversarial justice
processes. Instead, judges directly engage with court participants. The movement toward …

This book showcases innovative justice initiatives from around the world which engage
offenders, practitioners and communities to reduce reoffending and support desistance and …

Innocent people are regularly convicted of crimes they did not commit. A number of systemic
factors have been found to contribute to wrongful convictions, including eyewitness …

In the past, Australian law reform often focused on improving the situation of sexual assault
victims in the criminal justice system in order to increase the low reporting and conviction …

This chapter provides an overview of problem-solving courts currently in operation in
Australia and New Zealand. We explore how the evolution of the problem-solving courts has …