Is Criminal Law Reform a Lost Cause?

Bronitt, Simon

doi:10.22459/ndla.09.2017.10

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“…Bystander sousveillance can make meaning of aggregate police data reported in the mainstream media through a qualitative critique, providing pretext of what happens before a crime occurs (Quinney, 1995) and context of the criminalisation process (Bronitt and McSherry, 2010; Presdee, 2000). At the same time, the Jackson Reed video showed that mainstream media reports of the policing of major public events reflect police and event organisers’ view of safety at a ‘whole of crowd’ level, while spectators are more concerned about personal safety (Tomsen and Markwell, 2009: iii).…”

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“…Police file their own briefs of evidence, and police oversight bodies often only have jurisdiction over ‘serious misconduct’ (NSW Council for Civil Liberties, 2017). Public order matters 1 provide important perspectives on the procedures of criminalisation, the characteristics and apparatus of criminal liability and the cultural, social and political context of law enforcement (Bronitt and McSherry, 2010). At the same time, the basis of the criminal law is the responsibility and culpability of the individual.…”

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“…This dictates to a large extent the mainstream media framing of such incidents as interpersonal, and which tends to further obscure the organisational and structural harms generated by policing institutions (Pemberton, 2016). Yet public order matters are neglected in criminal law scholarship because of perceptions of triviality (Anderson and Heath, 2016) that belie their impact on the daily lives of citizens, police, criminal lawyers and magistrates (Bronitt and McSherry, 2010).…”

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More than a trivial pursuit: Public order policing narratives and the ‘social media test’

Ellis

2020

Crime, Media, Culture

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Social media has transformed public discourse on policing and the contest of control over the police image. This article draws on original, empirical research to conceptualise the phenomenon of the ‘social media test’ – the evolution of social media into a legitimate measure of police performance. Through in-depth interviews with police and non-police respondents the article maps the genealogy of, and provides perspective on, one of the first viral cases of bystander video of police excessive force in Australia filmed and uploaded to YouTube. The study shows the video’s impact on hegemonic mainstream and police news media narratives, processes of criminalisation and police accountability and the merit of narrative criminology in unpacking these phenomena. Police alluding to the ‘social media test’ in in-depth interviews shows that digital media in general and social media in particular can no longer be dismissed as peripheral or subsidiary to public discourse on policing in a digital society.

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Ellis

2020

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“…Examples observed included tree-style maps to represent key aspects of individual litigated legal cases, 48 the elements necessary to making a case, 49 elements of financial contracts, 50 and to prompt lawyers on enquiries that should be undertaken on behalf of the client to ensure due diligence in property matters. 51…”

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Visualisation of law and legal Process: An opportunity missed

McLachlan

Webley

2021

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Visual representation of the law and legal process can aid in recall and discussion of complicated legal concepts, yet is a skill rarely taught in law schools. This work investigates the use of flowcharts and similar process-oriented diagrams in contemporary legal literature through a literature review and concept-based content analysis. Information visualisations (infovis) identified in the literature are classified into 11 described archetypal diagram types, and the results describe their usage quantitatively by type, year, publication venue and legal domain. We found that the use of infovis in legal literature is extremely rare, identifying not more than 10 articles in each calendar year. We also identified that the concept flow diagram is most commonly used, and that Unified Modelling Language (UML) is the most frequently applied representational approach. This work posits a number of serious questions for legal educators and practicing lawyers regarding how infovis in legal education and practice may improve access to justice, legal education and lay comprehension of complex legal frameworks and processes. It concludes by asking how we can expect communities to understand and adhere to laws that have become so complex and verbose as to be incomprehensible even to many of those who are learned in the law?

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Is Criminal Law Reform a Lost Cause?

Abstract: I would like to thank Michael Potts and Zoe Brereton for research assistance. 2 Under its parent Act, The Law Commission (England and Wales) was tasked with keeping the law under review 'with a view to its systematic development and reform, including in particular the codification of law':

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More than a trivial pursuit: Public order policing narratives and the ‘social media test’

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