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The Workplace Relations Amendment (Work Choices) Act 2005 (Cth) (“WorkChoices”) presented significant changes to the Industrial Relations regime in Australia with new statutory minimum standards in conditions of employment, a shift towards individual based workplace agreements and a complete...
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When we each look at anything or anybody, say violence against women, our perceptions are the outcome of our own individual upbringing and our experiences which for most, are to some degree, weighted heavily by the wider cultural context of dominants' knowledge and language. Credibility and...
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This article seeks to draw conclusions about the potential impact of the Crimes Amendment (Abolition of Defensive Homicide) Act 2014 (Vic). We do so by considering whether defensive homicide served as a safety net in the 2014 case of Director of Public Prosecutions (Vic) v Williams. The article...
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Research suggests that despite substantial changes to domestic violence legislation since its conception in the 19th century, women’s voices continue to be muted and domestic violence continues to be invisible, to some extent, in the eyes of the law. This paper uses the 1881 autobiography of...
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This paper examines the theory behind and some examples of the relationships between gender, language, cognition and perception in the context of the criminal justice system. In particular, we consider the language of domestic violence and sexual assault and how words and communication styles...
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Easteal provides a brief profile of the sociodemographic and sentence background of women in prison. She highlights the issues affecting female inmates such as the perpetuation of the three rules of dysfunctional families within the prisons and explains how the gendered needs of women inmates...
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Easteal describes the extra pressure women from a non English speaking background may face when they find themselves imprisoned. These women experience difficulties with the prison culture which may cause shock and distress; language difficulties; an inability to adapt to food offered in prison;...
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