Although criminal justice systems vary greatly around the world, one theme has emerged in
all western jurisdictions in recent years: a rise in both the rhetoric and practice of severe …

What are the various forces influencing the role of the prison in late modern societies? What
changes have there been in penality and use of the prison over the past 40 years that have …

New forms of 'simulated'justice and policing are emerging at the convergence of telemetric
regulation with two linked trends: the monetization of justice and the development of risk …

The article proposes that race is central to the historical sociology and contemporary
practice of punishment in settler societies such as Australia. The roots of massively …

Exploring the principles and values that should guide and limit the state's use of preventive
techniques that involve coercion against the individual, this volume arises from a three-year …

Sweeping changes have recently been made to punishment practices in many western
nations. A number of these have reflected punitive, penal populism. The purpose of this …

Constructing a new series of incarceration rates from 1860 to 2018, I find that Australia now
incarcerates a greater share of the adult population than at any point since the late …

The European settlement of Australia from 1788 was accompanied by a prolonged dis-
possession of the indigenous people, who became British subjects at law. Regimes of …

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

The fine is the most common penalty imposed by courts of summary jurisdiction in Australia,
and fines imposed by way of penalty notice or infringement notice are a multiple of those …