Greater restraints for youth offenders: Why tougher sentences have an inferior effect in keeping communities safe

By Kasia Kassiotes | 26 August 2024

It has been almost a year since the Queensland Government passed a controversial amendment to the Youth Justice Act 1992 (Gillespie, 2023). With a continuing rise in youth crime, it is clear harsher penalties on youth offenders instead undermine community safety and prevent these adolescents from being reintroduced into society.

Male Unsusceptibility: The fallacy preventing legal recognition of male victims of sexual violence in armed conflict

By Lara Gaffney | 12 August 2024

The occurrence of sexual violence in armed conflict has been a phenomenon prevalent throughout history, evident across many cultures, as well as in all parts of the world. In fact, it has been characterised as an accepted part of the “universal mayhem unleashed by war.”[1]

Kiddie Porn: Understanding Online Child Pornography in the United Kingdom

By Rasika Baig | 29 July 2024

The advent of the Internet has allowed criminals to produce and destroy online child pornography at “the click of a mouse anywhere in the world” ^[1] without risking exposure through “the receipt of magazine and mail-order pictures”^[2]. Because child pornography is illegal, or an ‘underground’ industry, it is impossible to determine the