Journal articles

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The need for a federal, Australia-wide approach to issues concerning crime victims (law), Current Issues in Criminal Justice (2007)

There are now a number of significant Federal crimes that do involve natural persons as...

 

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Victim impact statements and sentencing, Monash University Law Review (2007)

Legislation allowing for victim impact statements ('VIS') to be presented during sentencing hearings has been...

 

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Review essay: Colin Tatz, 'With intent to destroy: reflecting on genocide', Current Issues in Criminal Justice (2005)

Professor Colin Tatz has been one ofthe most prominent scholars in the field of the...

 

The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission: a suitable model to enhance the role and rights of victims of gross violations of human rights?, Melbourne University Law Review (2003)

The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission is one of the most talked about innovative,...

 

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Victims and the International Criminal Court: three major issues, International Criminal Law Review (2003)

The Statute of the permanent International Criminal Court (the "ICC") agreed to in Rome in...

 

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A democracy's rite of passage: confronting the ghosts of its past (with Mathew Deighton), Southern Cross University Law Review (2000)

Waning international pressure on the military led State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) of Burma...

 

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Restorative justice from the perspective of crime victims, Queensland University of Technology Law Journal (1999)

Recent trend in common law legal systems to establish restorative justice programs - usually involves...

 

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Evaluation of an innovative model for teaching and LLB program (with Helen Saenger, Martin Hayden, and Jim Jackson), Legal Education Review (1998)

In 1993, the faculty of Law and Criminal Justice at Southern Cross University developed an...

 

Books

Indigenous human rights (with Loretta Kelly and Warwick Fisher), School of Law and Justice Papers (2001)

Indigenous Human Rights is an edited selection of proceedings of the Australian Indigenous Human Rights...

 

Book chapters

Victims and criminal justice (with Mark Israel), Crime and justice: a guide to criminology (2012)
 

The (human) rights of crime victims do not necessarily infringe the rights of accused and convicted persons, Support for victims of crime in Asia (2008)

Conclusion: After examining the background to the crime victims' movement in common law developed nations,...

 

Amnesty for truth: a violation of human rights by South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission?, Activating human rights (2006)

Papers originally presented at an international conference hosted by The Centre for Law, Politics and...

 

The role and rights of victims at the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal, The Nuremburg Trials: international criminal law since 1945: 60th anniversary international conference (2006)

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The American perspective on Nuremberg: a case of cascading ironies / Raymond M Brown--...

 

Crime victims and prisoners' rights, Prisoners as citizens: human rights in Australian prisons (2002)

Summary: "Over the last decade popular cinema has employed a variety of forms of music....

 

Conference publications

Australia's response to the death penalty in Asia, International Conference on Capital Punishment in Asia: Progress and Prospects for Law Reform (2011)
 

Victims at the ICC and the Nuremberg trials, the Victims of International Crimes Conference (2011)
 

The international legal obligations of successor governments to provide financial compensation to victims of past gross violations of human rights, Getting On-Line: Finding the Groove in Postgraduate Legal Research Sydney Law School Postgraduate Students Conference (2007)
 

Compensating victims of terrorism, Victims of Crime in Asia Conference (2006)
 

The effect of victim impact statements on sentencing decisions, Sentencing: Principles, Perspectives and Possibilities Conference (2006)

Part I: Introduction Since the 1970s Victim Impact Statements (‘VIS’) have been used increasingly in...

 

The proposed Convention on Victims, 12th International Symposium on Victimology (2006)
 

The relevance of victim impact statements to sentencing decisions, International Conference on the Legal Aspects of Quality Assurance and Accreditation (2006)
 

Consent in the Criminal Law, One law for all: Australasian Law Teachers Association (ALTA) Conference (2005)
 

Victims rights are human rights, Peaceful Coexistence: Victims Rights in a Human Rights Framework; National Forum on the 20th Anniversary of the UN Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime & Abuse of Power (2005)

Presentation to the 20th anniversary celebration of the 1985 UN Victims Declaration, held in Canberra...

 

Accountability mechanisms for the gross violations of human rights in East Timor: a critical analysis, Proceedings of 71st biennial Conference of the International Law Association (2004)
 

Improving the treatment of child victims during the criminal justice system: some broad issues drawing upon the international and Australian criminal justice systems, Conference making children's rights work: national and international perspectives (2004)

If we are going to do ‘justice’ to child victims and ensure that the rights...

 

What makes governments pay up? State-funded reparation schemes for victims of gross violations of human rights, Fifth Biennial Conference of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (2003)