Announcements

• Thank You!

  2024-12-18

  As 2024 draws to a close, we would like to acknowledge and thank the Editorial team, the International Editorial Board, the authors and especially the Journal reviewers for their significant and valuable contributions throughout the year. 

  The Journal remains committed to publishing critical research about common challenges confronting criminal justice systems around the world.

  Importantly, the Journal's criminology research and scholarship is accessible to all, without paywalls and via best practice in open access publishing.

  John Scott and David Rodríguez Goyes (Chief Editors); Avi Brisman (Book Editor); Marília de Nardin Budó (Book Editor), and Tracy Creagh (Journal Manager)

   

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• Special Issue: Successful Strategies to Improve Access to Justice for Women Who Kill Their Abusers

  2024-12-02

  Guest editors Danielle Tyson (Deakin University), Bronwyn Naylor (RMIT University) and Stella Tarrant (The University of Western Australia) have curated a special issue that was  inspired by a successful international workshop held in February 2023 (Successful Strategies for Improving Access to Justice for Women Who Kill Their Abusers).

  The international workshop drew together practitioners (practising lawyers, family violence experts, psych- experts) and researchers from a range of international jurisdictions (England, Scotland, New Zealand, Canada, United States, Germany and Australia) and disciplines (criminology, law, socio-legal studies, gender studies, Māori health and Indigenous studies and education), to share insights about their efforts to improve legal understandings of women’s experiences of intimate partner violence (IPV), their use of fatal force against an abusive partner and their self-defence claims.

  The continued prosecutions of women for killing their violent partner in the context of extensive prior abuse, and the continuing choice of women to plead guilty to manslaughter rather than risk arguing self-defence, demonstrates a lack of real progress in our laws and our courts. This special issue grapples with the practicalities and politics of achieving change. The guest editors hope it points to some innovative and effective strategies for improving access to justice for women who have used force to protect themselves and often their children from further victimisation.

  Guest Editorial Volume 13(4) 2024 https://doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.3769

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• New | Online First

  2022-09-05

  Police Use of Force in Mental Health Crises: An Analysis of Coronial Inquest Findings from Australia  Shannon Dodd, Matthew Morgan, Bridget Weir, Jordan Bowyer

  Working Together to Implement Gender-Responsive Policing: Gender Advisory Work in Timor-Leste Loene M Howes, Suzanne Preston

  Hungry for More: Examining How Cultures of Increasing Demand Drive the Decline of the European Eel   Alison Hutchinson, Aitor Ibáñez Alonso, Monica Pons-Hernandez

  Cultural Practices and Human Rights: The Non-reporting of Rape Cases in the Lupane Rural District of Zimbabwe  Njabulo Ncube, Rika Snyman

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