Criminal Justice

Health & Medicine

Giving everyone the right to sport

Sport and physical activity are designated as human rights, so young people in the justice system need to be equitable access too

Politics & Society

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Special Report

Intimate partner sexual violence and the courts

Sexual assault by an intimate partner often goes unreported, and when it is, the legal system is daunting whether a woman is seeking justice or simply protection. We need a better way.

Politics & Society

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Podcasts

Prevention and justice for sexual violence

Professor Bianca Fileborn is researching the different factors surrounding sexual violence – including place – and how we can better prevent it while providing new forms of justice for survivors

Health & Medicine

Caring for the terminally ill in prison

New research highlights the opportunities to improve care for people in prison who are dying from a progressive, life-limiting illness

Health & Medicine

Too young for Facebook, old enough for prison?

Children can’t sign up to Facebook until age 13 but in Australia they can be prosecuted for a criminal offence at age ten, and that needs to change

Health & Medicine

Giving prisoners a sporting chance

Physical activity programs for prisoners like sport and organised runs isn’t about being soft on crime, it is about helping people rehabilitate for everyone’s sake

Politics & Society

The ‘Making a Murderer’ effect

A new wave of crime coverage is highlighting miscarriages of justice and changing the way we think about the judicial system.

Arts & Culture

The podcast shining a light on a murder verdict

Serial casts legal shadow with its own trial into teen slaying