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Author : Arie Freiberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Meaning of "Life' written by Arie Freiberg and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ivan Leslie Potas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780642147431
Total Pages : 6 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Life Imprisonment in Australia written by Ivan Leslie Potas and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carl Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781760879488
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (794 download)
Download or read book Life Sentence written by Carl Williams and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary letters detailing Carl Williams last eighteen months in jail, discovered after his death.
Author : Dirk van Zyl Smit
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1509902228
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Life Imprisonment and Human Rights written by Dirk van Zyl Smit and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many jurisdictions today, life imprisonment is the most severe penalty that can be imposed. Despite this, it is a relatively under-researched form of punishment and no meaningful attempt has been made to understand its full human rights implications. This important collection fills that gap by addressing these two key questions: what is life imprisonment and what human rights are relevant to it? These questions are explored from the perspective of a range of jurisdictions, in essays that draw on both empirical and doctrinal research. Under the editorship of two leading scholars in the field, this innovative and important work will be a landmark publication in the field of penal studies and human rights.
Author : Dirk Van Zyl Smit
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674989112
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)
Download or read book Life Imprisonment written by Dirk Van Zyl Smit and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-14 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life imprisonment has replaced capital punishment as the most common sentence imposed for heinous crimes worldwide. As a consequence, it has become the leading issue in international criminal justice reform. In the first global survey of prisoners serving life terms, Dirk van Zyl Smit and Catherine Appleton argue for a human rights–based reappraisal of this exceptionally harsh punishment. The authors estimate that nearly half a million people face life behind bars, and the number is growing as jurisdictions both abolish death sentences and impose life sentences more freely for crimes that would never have attracted capital punishment. Life Imprisonment explores this trend through systematic data collection and legal analysis, persuasively illustrated by detailed maps, charts, tables, and comprehensive statistical appendices. The central question—can life sentences be just?—is straightforward, but the answer is complicated by the vast range of penal practices that fall under the umbrella of life imprisonment. Van Zyl Smit and Appleton contend that life imprisonment without possibility of parole can never be just. While they have some sympathy for the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights, they conclude that life imprisonment, in many of the ways it is implemented worldwide, infringes on the requirements of justice. They also examine the outliers—states that have no life imprisonment—to highlight the possibility of abolishing life sentences entirely. Life Imprisonment is an incomparable resource for lawyers, lawmakers, criminologists, policy scholars, and penal-reform advocates concerned with balancing justice and public safety.
Author : Bree Carlton
Publisher : Institute of Criminology
ISBN 13 : 9780975196755
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (967 download)
Download or read book Imprisoning Resistance written by Bree Carlton and published by Institute of Criminology. This book was released on 2007 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nominated in the True Crime Category for the 8th Davitt Awards. These awards recognise the best crime novels and true crime books written by Australian women, published in 2007. 29 October 2007 marks twenty years since the death of five prisoners in a riot and fire in the infamous Jika Jika high-security unit. This book resurrects these events and invites us to learn urgent lessons in our current age of supermax and privatised prisons, detention of asylum seekers and the controversial use of indefinite detention under the banner of a 'war on terror'. Imprisoning Resistance provides an experiential account of life and death in the controversial Pentridge Prison Jika Jika High-Security Unit in Victoria during the 1980s. One of Australia's first hi-tech supermax prisons, Jika Jika was designed to house and manage the system's 'worst of the worst' prisoners. Several years of deaths in custody, multiple escapes, assaults, murders, prisoner campaigns and protests, hunger strikes and allegations of prison staff brutality escalated in 1987 to a dramatic protest fire that resulted in the deaths of five prisoners. The prison was closed and a series of inquiries were commissioned. Bree Carlton revisits this uncomfortable past and reconstructs events leading up to and surrounding the fire and deaths, while critically analysing official responses to the discreditable episodes, crises and deaths that plagued Jika Jika.
Author : Judicial Commission of New South Wales
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780731356133
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (561 download)
Download or read book Sentencing Bench Book written by Judicial Commission of New South Wales and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains commentary on three key sentencing statutes, and on sentencing law for nine offence categories.
Author : Carl Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781528878531
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (785 download)
Download or read book Life Sentence written by Carl Williams and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2007 Carl Williams was convicted of 3 murders and sentenced to 35 years' jail. His role in the Melbourne Gangland Wars had made him one of the most infamous names in Australian criminal history, an unlikely gang boss with a baby face and friendly smile who was responsible for dozens of deaths on the streets of Melbourne. Williams began serving his sentence in a high security unit at Victoria's Barwon jail. In October 2008 he was given access to a personal computer. Confined to a tiny cell for most of the day, with limited contact to the outside world, the computer was a godsend. Carl began a daily correspondence with his friends and family, covering his life in jail, his thoughts and hopes for the future and his views and opinions on everyone from barristers and judges to fellow criminals and deadly rivals. Just 18 months after receiving his computer, Williams was bashed to death by a fellow prisoner.
Author : Carl Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781760875152
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (751 download)
Download or read book Life Sentence written by Carl Williams and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-05 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2007, Carl Williams was convicted of three murders and sentenced to 35 years' jail. Yet his role in the Melbourne Gangland Wars went far beyond a handful of killings, however brutal, and had made him one of the most infamous names in Australian criminal history. The unlikely gang boss with a baby face and friendly grin had played a leading role in the savage long-running conflict that saw more than 30 gang-related murders on the streets of Melbourne. Williams began serving his sentence in a high-security unit at Victoria's Barwon Prison. In October 2008 he was given access to a personal computer. Confined to a tiny cell for most of the day, and having limited contact with the outside world, the computer was a godsend. As soon as he received it, Carl began a daily correspondence with his friends and family, covering his life in jail, his thoughts and hopes for the future, and his views and opinions on everyone from barristers and judges to fellow criminals and deadly rivals. Just a year and a half later, Williams was bashed to death by a trusted friend and fellow prisoner. Using his letters, Life Sentence paints a vivid picture of Carl's last 18 months. His writing is surprising, often manipulative, frequently self-serving, and always a fascinating and revealing insight into the mind of one of Australia's most notorious criminals. "For years, others have spoken for Carl. In these letters, Carl tells his own story for the first time. It's like meeting the man behind the myth." --Adam Shand
Author : Barry Mitchell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782250255
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (822 download)
Download or read book Exploring the Mandatory Life Sentence for Murder written by Barry Mitchell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-19 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murder is often regarded as both the 'ultimate' and a unique crime, and whereas courts are normally given discretion in sentencing offenders, for murder the sentence is mandatory – indeterminate imprisonment. Since the crime and the punishment come as a 'package deal' this book looks at both the legal nature of the offence and at the current operation of the mandatory life sentence. Not only does the book adopt a critical approach, by assessing the strengths and weaknesses of the status quo, it also draws upon comparative material from both common and civil law jurisdictions in an attempt to provide a comprehensive exploration of these issues. The need for public confidence in the criminal justice system is particularly acute in the way it deals with the most serious homicides. In this book the authors report findings from the first systematic exploration of public attitudes to sentencing murder in this or any other common law jurisdiction. The picture of public opinion emerging from this recent large-scale nationwide qualitative and quantitative survey, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, is likely to surprise many, and will be of interest to all jurisdictions where the mandatory life sentence for murder has been questioned.
Author : Ernest Van den Haag
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1489927875
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (899 download)
Download or read book The Death Penalty written by Ernest Van den Haag and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1965 until 1980, there was a virtual moratorium on executions for capital offenses in the United States. This was due primarily to protracted legal proceedings challenging the death penalty on constitutional grounds. After much Sturm und Drang, the Supreme Court of the United States, by a divided vote, finally decided that "the death penalty does not invariably violate the Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause of the Eighth Amendment." The Court's decisions, however, do not moot the controversy about the death penalty or render this excellent book irrelevant. The ball is now in the court of the Legislature and the Executive. Leg islatures, federal and state, can impose or abolish the death penalty, within the guidelines prescribed by the Supreme Court. A Chief Executive can commute a death sentence. And even the Supreme Court can change its mind, as it has done on many occasions and did, with respect to various aspects of the death penalty itself, durlog the moratorium period. Also, the people can change their minds. Some time ago, a majority, according to reliable polls, favored abolition. Today, a substantial majority favors imposition of the death penalty. The pendulum can swing again, as it has done in the past.
Author : James Edward Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Imprisonment in Western Australia written by James Edward Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes chapter on imprisonment of Aborigines and details of Rottnest Island prison.
Author : Jenny Mouzos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Contract Killings in Australia written by Jenny Mouzos and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report examines the nature of contract killings in Australia, with specific attention on documenting its incidence, the level of police intervention in its prevention, differences between successful and attempted contract killings and the various types of contract killings in Australia.
Author : Bernie Matthews
Publisher : Macmillan Publishers Aus.
ISBN 13 : 1742625746
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Intractable written by Bernie Matthews and published by Macmillan Publishers Aus.. This book was released on 2007-11-10 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intractable is a relentless and remarkable story of life on the inside of two of Australia's most brutal prison regimes - Grafton and Katingal - in the 70s. In 1969 Bernie Matthews was convicted of armed robbery and sentenced to 10 years. A serial escapee, prison authorities soon classified Matthews as an intractable prisoner and he was transferred to the Alcatraz of the NSW prison system at Grafton. There, life was a routine series of bashings and solitary confinement, and as the systematic brutality of Grafton became a political scandal, Matthews and other prisoners found themselves transferred to a fresh hell in 1975 - Katingal Special Security Unit inside Sydney's Long Bay Jail, Australia's first super-max prison. A concrete bunker with no natural light or fresh air, Katingal replaced Grafton's bashings with sensory deprivation and psychological control. Suicide attempts and self-harm followed. One of the longest serving and surviving Katingal inmates, Matthews did not see daylight for two years, eight months. Intractable is not only a shocking story of what it's like to do time but also a history of one of the great political scandals of the 70s from a unique perspective (Katingal was pulled down this year). It's also the eye-opening story of a man who managed to turn his life around in the worst of Australia's prisons to become a writer and prison activist.
Author : Warren Fellows
Publisher : Pan Australia
ISBN 13 : 174262930X
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (426 download)
Download or read book The Damage Done written by Warren Fellows and published by Pan Australia. This book was released on 1999-02-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1978 Warren Fellows, Paul Hayward and William Sinclair were convicted of heroin trafficking between Thailand and Australia. They were sentenced to life imprisonment in Bangkok's notorious Bang Kwang men's prison, the Bangkok Hilton. For Warren Fellows, it was the beginning of twelve years of hell. The Damage Done takes you behind the bars of a Bangkok prison. A place where sewer rats and cockroaches are the only nutritious food, where autocratic prison guards giggle as they deliver pulverising blows and where the worst punishment by far is the khun deo - solitary confinement, Thai style. Brutally honest and repentant of his initial crime, Warren talks about the decade of his life he lost in leg irons. The Damage Done is a brave and compelling book that poses harrowing questions on the nature of justice. 'Not a book for the fainthearted...A gut-wrenching confessional of endless days and nights in purgatory.' HERALD SUN 'Exceptionally readable' THE AUSTRALIAN
Author : Bernie Matthews
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781405037488
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (374 download)
Download or read book Intractable written by Bernie Matthews and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INTRACTABLE is a relentless and remarkable story of life on the inside of two of Australia's most brutal prison regimes - Grafton and Katingal - in the '70s. In 1969 Bernie Matthews was convicted of armed robbery and sentenced to 10 years. A serial escapee, prison authorities soon classified Matthews as an intractable prisoner and he was transferred to the Alcatraz of the NSW prison system at Grafton. There, life was a routine series of bashings and solitary confinement, and as the systematic brutality of Grafton became a political scandal, Matthews and other prisoners found themselves transferred to a fresh hell in 1975 - Katingal Special Security Unit inside Sydney's Long Bay Jail, Australia's first super-max prison. A concrete bunker with no natural light or fresh air, Katingal replaced Grafton's bashings with sensory deprivation and psychological control. Suicide attempts and self-harm followed. One of the longest serving and surviving Katingal inmates, Matthews did not see daylight for two years, eight months. INTRACTABLE is not only a shocking story of what it's like to do time but also a history of one of the great political scandals of the '70s from a unique perspective (Katingal was pulled down this year). It's also the eye-opening story of a man who managed to turn his life around in the worst of Australia's prisons to become a writer and prison activist.
Author : Grant Wardlaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780642904584
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (45 download)
Download or read book The Management of Long-term Prisoners in Australia written by Grant Wardlaw and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
