Contemporary issues in criminal law
By: editor, Emma Henderson
Series: Law in context -- volume 34, number 2; Law in context (Bundoora, Vic.) -- v. 34, no. 2
Publisher: The Federation Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Annandale, N.S.W
Language: eng
Number of pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9781760020743
Subjects: Criminal law
Notes: "This special issue of Law in context is comprised of articles developed at the 2015 Criminal Law Workshop, co-hosted by the La Trobe University and Melbourne University Law Schools"--Page 1.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The "bikie effect" and other forms of demonisation : the origins and effects of hyper-criminalisation / Luke McNamara and Julia Quilter; title: Domestic and family violence and the approach to bail / Emily Ng and Heather Douglas; title: Common purpose and conspiracy liability in New Zealand : criminality by association? / Julia Tolmie and Kris Gledhill; title: Legal irresponsibility and institutional responses to child sex abuse / Penny Crofts; title: Emergency situations and the defence of necessity / Jeremy Finn; title: "Weeds of our own making" : language ideologies, swearing and the criminal law.