JALE1044 Foundations of Justice

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- A legal history for Australia (see ch. 7 & 8)
- Crime, criminality & criminal justice (green cover - see ch. 18)
- The Australian judiciary (see ch. 2)
- Understanding the Australian legal system (ch. 4)
- Law and Justice in Australia : Foundations of the Legal System (part 2 may be useful)
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Australian courts
Australian courts AND covid
Australian courts AND social media
Australian courts AND "access to justice"
problem solving courts AND Australia

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courts AND "social media"

Search for the following articles on AustLII:
- "Contemporary challenges facing the Australian judiciary"
- "The Courts, the Remote Hearing and the Pandemic: From Action to Reflection"
- "An Age Of Diversity: Where To Next For The Judicial Diversity Project"
(make sure you include the quotation marks in your search).

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Search for the following publications:
- Criminal trial delays in Australia: trial listing outcomes

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- Challenges in mainstreaming specialty courts
- Australia's Federal Courts: Their Origins, Structure and Jurisdiction
- Transforming the criminal courts: politics, managerialism, consumerism, therapeutic jurisprudence and change
- "Australia's Lower-level Criminal Courts: Tackling 21st Century Problems in a 19th Century Paradigm"
- The Lower Courts in Tasmania in the 19th Century
- Civil courts and COVID-19: Challenges and opportunities in Australia
- Courts, Mediation and COVID-19
- Court innovations and access to justice in times of crisis
- 'Benchmarking'a Supreme Court and Federal Court judge in Australia
- Contemporary challenges facing the Australian judiciary: An empirical interruption
- Technology and the judicial role (click on all 4 versions under the abstract and you should be able to access one of the links on the right).
- Technology and the Courts: Artificial Intelligence and Judicial Impartiality
- Technology and the future of the courts + allsop
- AI Decision-Making and the Courts: A Guide for Judges, Tribunal Members and Court Administrators
Note: When using Google Scholar, if an article has a link to the right, such as [PDF] researchgate.net, it is available for free. Click on the link to the right to open the article.
Most of the referencing information for these publications can be found by clicking on the little quote mark under each record. If some of this information is missing, check the headers and footers of the article you are reading.

New South Wales Government. (n.d.). History of the Local Court.

The Prosecution Project. (n.d.). Victorian courts.

The Prosecution Project. (n.d.). Tasmanian courts.

The Prosecution Project. (n.d.). Queensland courts.

The Prosecution Project. (n.d.). Western Australian courts.

The Prosecution Project. (n.d.). South Australian courts.

The Prosecution Project. (n.d.). Northern Territory Supreme Court.

Victorian Law Reform Commission. (2024, October). Artificial Intelligence in Victoria’s courts and Tribunals: Consultation paper

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- Punishment and Sentencing : Risk, Rehabilitation and Restitution (ch.1)
- Crime, criminality & criminal justice (green cover - see ch. 23)
- Handbook on Prisons (search within book for Australia. Also, see the chapter on the aims of imprisonment).
- Penal Culture and Hyperincarceration: The Revival of the Prison (search within book for Australia).
- Crime & Justice: A Guide to Criminology (ch.21)
- Understanding Prisons
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Search for the following book, if it doesn't appear automatically - "the Good Prison Officer"
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cost of prison

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"does prison work"
prison AND effect* AND Australia
incarceration AND justice reinvestment AND Australia

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- "is corrections correcting"

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"prison in Australia"

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Search for the following article titles:
- COVID-19 and Corrections in Australia: A Summary Review of the Available Data and Literature
- Colonial gulag
After doing a search, tick the 'Only show content I have full access to' on the left and wait for the results to reload.
You must print or save the PDF of each article.
Note: Don't use book reviews. Book reviews are usually short (1-3 pages). They start with the details of recently published books and won't have any referencing in them.

The search below is linked above:
Go to the ACAP Library advanced search page >
Select articles in the material type box >
Try the following search:
Box 1 (contains): Australian prisons
After the results load, look at the options (facets) on the left hand side of the page.
change the date range to 2010-2024 and apply the change.
Select peer reviewed articles and apply the change.

National Trust on Australia. (2021). How was the Gaol run?

National Trust of Australia. ( n.d.). Old Melbourne Jail - History.

Published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

New South Wales Department of Communities & Justice. (n.d.). CSNSW history.

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Search for the following articles:
- Transnational histories of penal transportation: Punishment, labour and governance in the British imperial world, 1788–1939
- Convict transportation from Britain and Ireland 1615–1870
- Banishment, transportation and a penal settlement
- Prisons: mental health institutions of the 21st century?
- Punishment and Colonial Society: A History of Penal Change in Queensland, 1859-1930s (thesis - they might ask you to solve a puzzle before you proceed to download the thesis. I had to place a dot at the end of a car's journey)
Note: When using Google Scholar, if an article has a link to the right, such as [PDF] researchgate.net, it is available for free. Click on the link to the right to open the article.
Most of the referencing information for these publications can be found by clicking on the little quote mark under each record. If some of this information is missing, check the headers and footers of the article you are reading.

Steering Committee for the Review of Commonwealth/State Service Provision. (2024). Report on Government Services. Productivity Commission.
See the justice section - part C.
Part C is broken down into police/law enforcement, courts and corrections and it states the objectives for each section.

Legislative Council Legal and Social Issues Committee. (2022, March 24). Inquiry into Victoria's criminal justice system: Report.