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

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 

Shameful: Indigenous Sentencing in Australia

By Steven Garcia | 11 August 2023

Indigenous Australians experience stricter sentencing than non-Indigenous people in the 21st Century. However, this is not a new occurrence. Since European settlement in Australia, Aboriginal people have been subject to white law – despite it not being their own law.