TASC Legal Studies: Crime in society

These two journals are available in the EBSCO ANZ Reference centre database. Click on the link; if you are not at school you may need to login using the password. 

Legaldate 1994 to present 

• Does imprisonment work? (2015)
• Safeguards for the victim and the accused in criminal law and the protection of human rights in criminal trials in Australia (2015)
• Principles of mediation (2012)
• Access to justice for victims of crime under Commonwealth Law (2010)
•  Features of a fair trial and rights in criminal proceedings (2011) 
• The relationship and overlap between civil and criminal law (2013) 

Psychiatry, Psychology & Law 2006 to present

• The rehabilitation of offenders: reducing risk and promoting better lives (2012)
• Families impacted by the criminal justice system on the frontier: a new model required (2010) 
• Predictors and classification of attitudes to differing sentencing goals in an Australian sample (2013) 
• Predicting punitive attitudes in Australia (2007) 
• People with an intellectual disability in the Australian criminal justice system (2008) 

You can find more articles in three steps:

1. Go to the library home page > LibGuides > A-Z Database list and click on the 'ANZ Reference Centre' link.  
2. Search for terms like 'dispute resolution' AND 'Australian law'. Use advanced search to add extra search terms. 
3. Control what sort of article you find by filtering your results. You might like to filter your results so you only find full-text articles from domestic academic journals published in the last five years? 

Australian Institute of Criminology
Is Australia's national research and knowledge centre on crime and justice and uses evidence-based research to inform policy and practice.This site provides information regarding the criminal justice system and types of crime including drugs and alcohol, environmental crime, violence, cyber crime, economic crime, and orginised and transnational crime.

ABC Radio National - Law Report
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The Drum (ABC)
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The Conversation
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