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Journal

International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy

ISSN:

2202-8005

Journal article

Criminalising institutional failures to prevent, identify or react to child sexual abuse

This article argues that the current Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse provides ample evidence of why organisations can and should be criminalised for systemic failures.
Journal article

‘The very foundations of any system of criminal justice’: criminal responsibility in the Australian Model Criminal Code

The Model Criminal Code (MCC) was intended to be a Code for all Australian jurisdictions. This paper assesses the MCC as a criminal law reform project and explores questions of how the MCC came into being, and why it took shape in certain ways at a particular point in time.
Journal article

‘Zero tolerance’ drug driving laws in Australia: a gap between rationale and form?

This article examines Australia's idiosyncratic approach to the criminalisation of drug driving, highlighting its weak correlation with the important road safety objective of deterring substance-impaired driving, and the risks of both over- and under-criminalisation that it creates.
Journal article

Crime and justice in digital society: towards a ‘digital criminology’?

This article explores the potential for an interdisciplinary concept of digital society to expand and inspire innovative crime and justice scholarship within an emerging field of ‘digital criminology’.
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