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.

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

The double standard view of the two high profile stabbings in Sydney

By Chantelle Cardona | 29 April 2024

In April 2024, we were faced with two incidents involving the stabbing of innocent people in the Sydney region both two days apart from each other. Yet what bothered some people was the fact that while a Caucasian man intentionally killed strangers was “dismissed” as a crime, a Middle-Eastern teenager targeting a priest was condemned a “terrorist act”.

Revenge Porn: What can people do if they find themselves to be a victim of it?

By Steven Garcia | 22 September 2023

Revenge porn is the unauthorised distribution to others of photos or videos of a sexual nature provided in confidence between partners. A common scenario of revenge porn is when a person in a trusting relationship sends photos or videos  to their partner but after the breakdown of the relationship the information is exposed or