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Don’t accept the premise

Don’t accept the premise

By Anna Winter on August 14, 2011

SlutWalk seeks to address the idea that a woman’s behaviour in one sphere of life should have no bearing on how she is judged in other spheres

Posted in Activism, Culture, Feminism, Language, Perth, Sexuality, Women | Tagged Crime, Culture Wars, gender & equality, Law, prostitution, sex, slutwalk | 40 Responses

London burning: Why here, why now? The sociology of civil disorder

London burning: Why here, why now? The sociology of civil disorder

By Mark Bahnisch on August 9, 2011

Underlying all this is deep inequality, which creates the subcultures where setting the town alight can be perceived as a rational action. Addressing those causes would require a different form of society altogether, and a politics which would take us there.

Posted in Crime, Europe, Featured, Masculinity, Politics, Race, Sociology | Tagged austerity, civil disorder, Crime, cultural sociology, deviance, inequality, london burning, Mark Duggan, Mary Farrell, Nina Power, ordering, Race, riots, roundtable, social control, social exclusion, social order, Sociology, Stafford Scott, subcultures, Tariq Ali, Tottenham | 250 Responses

Laura Norder’s Victorian visitation, complete with dodgy stats

By Robert Merkel on November 12, 2010

After a welcome absence in 2006, Laura Norder has taken up residence in Victoria for the election campaign. And the conservatives have her front and center, as their campaign ads show. Their key claim – Victorians are living in fear [...]

Posted in Crime, Parenting, Policy, State/Territory Elections, Women | Tagged Crime, domestic violence, family violence, statistics, Ted Baillieu | 36 Responses

Ne bis in idem

By Idiot/Savant on April 11, 2010

Crossposted from No Right Turn. The above, which translates as “not twice for the same”, is one of the fundamental principles of modern law. Once you’ve been tried for something, and that trial has reached a final verdict (either to [...]

Posted in Authoritarianism, Crime, Law, NSW Government | Tagged Crime, human rights, Kristina Keneally, Labor, NSW ALP, politics&govt | 15 Responses

Guest post by Tim Watts: “I’m not Racist, but… I’m Complacent"

By Guest Poster on January 14, 2010

My mate Tim Watts, who’s been doing some great work online on violent racist incidents in Melbourne, has provided this guest post. Previous discussion of the spate of attacks on Indian students at LP can be found here. -MB “I’m [...]

Posted in Activism, Australiana, Crime, Culture, Education, Ethics, Immigration, International, Media, Melbourne, Politics, Race, Sociology, The Web | Tagged assaults, attacks, Australia, Australia India Business council, causation, complacency, correlation, Crime, criminology, Culture, denial, disavowal, facebook, google maps, hate crime, Indian students, mapping, Melbourne, Neville Broad, Peter Varghese, police, policing, Politics, racism, simon overland, Sociology, statistics, tim watts, Victoria police, violent incidents, web | 351 Responses

Something rotten in the state of Queensland?

By Mark Bahnisch on July 27, 2009

From today’s Crikey: There has been a certain feeling in the air of deja vu over the past fortnight in Queensland. The jailing of a former Minister, allegations that government was far too close to business, a government sinking rapidly [...]

Posted in Authoritarianism, Brisbane, Crime, Media, Politics, Queensland, Sociology | Tagged Anna Bligh, anniversary, Armed Robbery Squad, Bligh government, civil liberties, CJC, CMC, corruption, Courier-Mail, Crime, Fitzgerald Inquiry, Gordon Nuttall, Griffith University, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, malfeasance, Media, police culture, political culture, Queensland police, Queensland politics, Quentin Dempster, Terry O'Gorman, Tony Fitzgerald, transparency | 39 Responses

Cheerful and violent

By Helen on July 1, 2009

As the world mourns for Michael Jackson, a “colourful” Melbourne identity is laid to rest with a tinnie of VB on his coffin. “Tupps” was the last surviving member of a Melbourne “crime dynasty” which has its own police taskforce [...]

Posted in Crime, Media, Melbourne | Tagged Crime, Gangs | 60 Responses

Guest post by Melanie Macfarlane: When I Grow Up: Taking Career Advice from the TV

By Guest Poster on March 26, 2009

MB writes: Folks might recall I mentioned about a month ago that I was judging UTS’ online journalism award. I’m very pleased indeed to publish the winning entry – by Melanie Macfarlane. You can read more about Melanie’s background and [...]

Posted in Crime, Culture, Education, Film, TV, Video etc, Law, Media, Science, Sociology, USA | Tagged award, Bones, career advice, Crime, CSI, cultural studies, Dana Scully, detection, drama, forensic science, journalism, Media, Melanie Macfarlane, online journalism, policing, Science, Sociology, student work, Television, Temperance Brennan, university, UTS, X Files | 6 Responses

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