My lecturer remarked my assignment. I got a 33/40 (which is a D), but more importantly he said that it was "a very good essay.. the writing and argument are definitely of very high quality" (which is what I care about!).
I know I lost a lot of marks because I was way way over the word limit - it's something I'm working on.
Having to appeal my assessment grade because I got a 29/40 for what I think is the best thing I've ever written, by a marker who thinks "crises" (the plural of "crisis") was a spelling mistake.
My housemate who also marks for the uni thinks the paper was worth an HD, and was as shocked as I was when I told her it scrapped in at a Credit. My housemate thinks it's actually worthy of being published.
Out of over 100K searches, they only had 413 positive hits.
This means the expanded powers are:
1. not proportional
2. not effective
- they are also actively harmful, but cops don't gaf about causing harm, especially to marginalised peoples.
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Expanded ‘Jack’s law’ police powers could lead to further ‘surveillance and harassment’ of some Queenslanders, expert warns
LNP moves to allow police to detain and search people with metal detecting wand in any public place and remove sunset clause
"According to police statistics, 83% of the 100,611 people wanded since Jack’s law came into effect were male. Of people with known ethnic origin, 11.8% were Indigenous – despite Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people making up only 4.6% of Queensland’s population, according to census figures. A survey of 6,705 people scanned at shopping centres showed that 76% were male, and 55% were younger than 18.
During another year-long trial that ended in June 2024, police laid more charges for drug possession – 1,384 – than for knife offences, of which 413 were recorded."
#AusPol #Australia #Queensland #QLD #QLDPOL #policing #Criminology #CriminalJustice #AbolishPolice #Abolition #AbolishPrisons #Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded
The elite always have been getting away with bad behavior:
"Oxford’s “spectacularly high” homicide rate was partly because it was home to so many college students, who made up the majority of both victims and suspected killers, Eisner said."
#history #England #homicide #criminology #Oxford #London
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2025/06/05/medieval-murder-map-study-violence/
I wrote almost 3500 words on Monday and Tuesday, and apparently that all the words that I will ever have within my brain because I can't even look at this essay long enough to just add references without wanting to kms.
#uni #Academia #Criminology #CriminalJustice #university #writing #audhd #autism #adhd #disability #pda #pdaAutism
* This toot was made by rearranging some words I swept up from under my desk this morning and tied together with old spaghettis.
One in three Australian men say they have committed intimate partner abuse, world-first research finds
Longitudinal study finds affectionate father-son relationships linked to lower risk of men later committing emotional or physical abuse
#men #Sexism #RapeCulture #ToxicMasculinity #ViolenceAgainstWomen #VAW #GenderedViolence #Rape #RapeCulture #SexualAssault #Crime #Criminology #CriminalJustice
oh no, I've really blown the word limit for this assessment out.
It's 3 questions, each meant to be 600 words. Mine are 937, 1078, and 1132.. but that's with in-text citations. But still...
It's not my fault, though - they are asking ridiculously wide questions!
The US Drug Control Strategy:
2016 under Obama - 91 pages
2024 under Biden - 126 pages
2025 under Trump - 5 pages AND THEY COUNTED THE FUCKING COVER PAGE
How would a human rights approach help rethink and reset our criminal justice system? Alex Firth, Research and Communications Officer for Just Fair, which campaigns to make economic, social and cultural rights a part of UK domestic law, explores how creating a robust rights-based safety net could help address the root causes of crime and benefit society as a whole.
Tackling the roots of crisis and crime – a human rights response - Alex Firth
https://revolving-doors.org.uk/tackling-the-roots-of-crisis-and-crime-a-human-rights-response/
No matter what we look like or where we come from, most of us have known the pain of seeing loved ones struggle—friends who have dealt with substance use, children who have
made rebellious choices, neighbors in over their heads trying to make ends meet. We also share some basic desires: that our communities would be places where people can overcome their struggles and be treated as equals. Where we are free to care for our families, find success, and be recognized for our best moments—not just our worst.
But for too long, we’ve allowed police and prison lobbyists to convince our leaders that separating people from their families through endless punishment is somehow a path to
safety: an estimated 8 million Americans have been to prison, over 70 million (20% of the population) are living with a criminal record, and nearly half of American families are impacted by American prisons and jails. Contrary to the claims of certain politicians, these policies have actually made us less safe.
The truth is, we know what keeps us safe. Research demonstrates that 3 key factors are particularly important for lowering crime and increasing safety:
1) steady income, whether
through employment or public benefits;
2) access to safe, stable housing; and
3) access to care and services. These are the factors that promote well-being, success, and empowerment
for individuals, families, and communities—all while reducing crime. If we want to imagine a
world where people are given a chance to address harm and heal, we must invest in the things that foster success and equal justice
JUSTICE REINVESTMENT
KEY TO REDUCING INDIGENOUS INCARCERATION - Tom Calma
Crime rates are dropping, but rates of imprisonment – particularly of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people – are sky-rocketing. A new approach is needed.
The Australian Law Reform Commission’s Pathways to Justice report tabled in April is the most recent in a long line to address the over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in prison, and not the first to point to justice reinvestment as a solution.
The ongoing and increasing expenditure of public resources on imprisonment for low-level offenders is a bad investment in social, health and economic terms. Returning low-level offenders from prison to socially and economically disadvantaged communities where there is inadequate housing, low levels of participation in schooling, few training or employment opportunities and limited or no drug and alcohol rehabilitation services doesn’t make sense. We are setting people – and communities – up to fail.
What does make sense is reprioritising where our money is spent. It needs to be moved away from building new prisons and into early intervention and crime prevention programs to reduce the number of people being locked up in the first place.
https://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/PrecedentAULA/2018/41.html