Overview
- Examines the complex, evolving area of legal punishments that are discretionary, prohibitive or circumvent due process protections
- Offers an applied Australian example of mixed methodological research
- Demonstrates the use of multiple research methods in criminology
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Criminology (BRIEFSCRIMINOL)
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Table of contents (4 chapters)
Keywords
- Police powers to punish
- Punishment for alcohol-related violence
- Banning notices
- Police imposed summary justice
- Night-time economy
- Preventive Justice
- Anti-social behaviour and alcohol-related violence
- Banning provisions in Victoria
- Oversight and balance in criminal justice
- Scrutiny of police banning powers
- Police powers and human rights
- Applied Australian criminology
- Mixed methods criminology
- policing
- criminal justice
About this book
This book uses an Australian case study to shine a much-needed spotlight on discretionary police powers to punish, and their implications for justice and human rights. It offers a revealing analysis of the problematic rationales that secured the legislative passage of banning notice provisions through the State Parliament of Victoria, Australia in 2007, which occurred amidst similar developments in other jurisdictions across the world: in the UK, New Labour’s “tough on crime” initiative in the 1990s, responses to the post 9/11 terror threat, and more recent lockout laws in Sydney, Australia. The Victorian case study offers a range of datasets including Hansard parliamentary debates, Victoria Police data, media coverage and interviews with magistrates. This material provides critical insights into the broader consequences of discretionary police powers, including their effect upon the separation of powers, individual rights, and the steady and largely unchecked proliferation of discretionary police powers across most Australian jurisdictions. On the tenth anniversary of these first Victorian on-the-spot banning powers, this Brief provides a sound basis for subsequent criminological explorations of the effectiveness of banning in tackling issues of disorder, deterrence and punishment, and of the broader challenge of balancing individual rights and community protection.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Discretionary Police Powers to Punish
Book Subtitle: A Case Study of Victoria’s Banning Notice Provisions
Authors: Clare Farmer
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Criminology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8869-8
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-8868-1Published: 23 March 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-8869-8Published: 09 March 2018
Series ISSN: 2192-8533
Series E-ISSN: 2192-8541
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 80
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Policing, Urban Studies/Sociology, Human Rights and Crime , Criminal Justice