AIC Conference Proceedings
No. 17: Homicide : patterns, prevention and control : proceedings of a conference held 12-14 May 1992
Heather Strang and Sally-Anne Gerull (eds.)
ISBN 0 642 18583 2 ; ISSN 1034-5086
Canberra : Australian Institute of Criminology, 1993
Abstract
These conference papers canvas a range of issues pertaining to homicide including: the issue of crime hot spots; prevention strategies for homicide; masculine violence; homicide between sexual intimates; police and legal perspectives; changing attitudes towards violence and alcohol; homicide trends and statistics; Aboriginal issues; psychiatric issues; gun control; the prosecutorial process; and the question of mandatory life imprisonment.
Contents
- Welcome address
Duncan Chappell - Characteristics of homicide in Australia 1990-91
Heather Strang - Preventing homicide through trial and error
Lawrence Sherman - A scenario of masculine violence: confrontational homicide
Kenneth Polk - Hot spots for violence: the environment of pubs and clubs
Ross Homel and Steve Tomsen - Homicide : the Northern Territory perspective
William L Goedegebuure - Homicide between sexual intimates in Australia : a preliminary report
Patricia Easteal - The Law Reform Commission of Victoria homicide prosecution study : the importance of context
Bronwyn Naylor - Killed by a stranger in Victoria, January 1990-April 1992 : location, victims' age and risk
Andros Kapardis - The police perspective
Peter Halloran, Mike Hagan, Jim Litster and Kerryn Nicks - Aboriginal homicide : customary law defences or customary lawyers' defences?
Geoffrey M Eames - Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal homicide : 'same but different'
David F Martin - Homicide and intellectually disabled offenders
Susan Hayes - Current legal issues in forensic psychiatry
Ian Freckelton - Firearms law reform : the limitations of the national approach
Sandra Egger and Rebecca Peters - Critical factors in firearms control
Errol Mason - Gun control and homicide : the shooters' perspective
Philip G Brown - The role of the pathologist in homicide investigations and coronial inquiries
David Ranson - The abolition of mandatory life imprisonment for murder : some jurisprudential issues
David Wood - Are there too many murder trials?
John Willis - Concluding discussion
Kenneth Polk, Lawrence Sherman, Sandra Egger, Don Weatherburn, and Bill Goedegebuure